During these three interrelated rites of passage, a group or age-set of Maasai boys pass together from being children to being morans (warriors), then adults and then elders. Enkipaata is a ...

Indigenous Maasai pastoralists see carbon credit projects being pushed by global powers as a new wave of land dispossession - ...

said Maasai coordinator Samuel Kaanki. "We need also girls to participate in this," he stressed, explaining how the traditional male-focussed ceremony had been adapted as the community changed.

and the Gabra who live in the north Maasai warriors who are yet to kill a lion wear huge enkuraru ostrich feather headdresses for ceremonies Samburu men wear theirs with piles of beads and paint ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. The Maasai ruled the plains from Lake Turkana to the north and Lake Manyara to the north ...

Historically, the Maasai are a pastoralist nomadic people from Kenya. The Maasai, like other pastoralists all over Africa, have lived for centuries earning their livelihood from herding livestock, ...

[Courtesy] Indigenous women from the Maasai community have voiced their ... including sacred sites, rites, and ceremonies. During a photo exhibition titled, "Matriarchs of Climate Resilience ...

It was once a rite of passage for warriors to kill lions to prove their bravery, but now the Maasai community works to protect them. Empaps (Meshack) Sayialel, Maasai The Maasai have a long ...