Every 15 years, the Maasai hold a ceremony called Olngesher where young men graduate to become community elders. This year was the first time the rite of passage was held during a global pandemic.

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 ...

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, ...

A policeman calls for backup as Jonathan Mpute Ole Pasha, national coordinator of the Maa Unity Agenda (MUA) group in Kenya, stands amid tear gas during a Maasai protest against the eviction of ...

A hospital in Kenya has built a traditional Maasai hut to encourage women to access maternity services. Since the manyatta was built in the grounds at Ngatataek hospital in Kajiado county ...

These experiences offer travelers not just visually stunning moments but emotional connections to traditions that have endured through generations. The Maasai people of Kenya maintain a cultural ...

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 ...

The Maasai ruled the plains from Lake Turkana to the north and Lake Manyara to the north of Tanzania. Their sphere of influence could be traced from Meru to the east, Kwale at the coast and Mumias ...