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In this beautiful Maasai village, I got to meet several members of this Maasai clan, or family, and see a traditional home. I ...
Overall, pizza was a win for the Maasai. The main speaker for the group, Kanaya, said that pizza is so good, it's "like cow blood." Evidently, cow blood is very tasty. He was less impressed with ...
For five days, the Eunoto ceremony features traditional guttural chants, single-file dances on one leg, and the adumu -- the famous Maasai jump. Cows are sacrificed and their blood drunk by the ...
"We have resolved to fight this to the bitter end," says Simon ole Kaparo, a local NGO official in Laikipia, who is one of the young Maasai men leading the campaign for the return of Laikipia. "We ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
I was watching them make fire, in a traditional Maasai way. After a few minutes there was smoke, then it turned into fire. Samwel Nangiria, the leader of the delegation, explained the importance ...
Four years after a group of Kenyan Maasai herders touched the hearts of Americans by donating 14 head of prized cattle to the US to help ease the pain of the 11 September attacks, a new home has been ...
OLAIMUTIAI, Kenya (AP) — In the bracing morning cold in the forest highlands overlooking Kenya’s Maasailand, 900 teenage boys clad in traditional Maasai shukhas or blankets line up for a cup ...
They have gone hungry. And they haven’t bathed in a month. It’s all part of learning to be a Maasai warrior. They have traveled to Olaimutiai in Kenya’s Narok county from all over the Maasai ...