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 ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Maasai warriors. [Courtesy, David Macharia] It was Joseph Chamberlain, the Secretary of ...

“We know how to kill lions,” one young Maasai warrior said in Swahili during a heated community meeting, and he didn’t mean only the spears that he and his fellow Maasai carry. He also meant ...

Maasai girls are taking up martial arts to protect themselves from sexual abuse and violence stemming from early marriage KILGORIS, Kenya -- KILGORIS, Kenya (AP) — “I am worth defending!” a ...

After a lion kills the village leader, the expected rains fail to arrive, so a group of warriors are sent to hunt the lion down and kill it in hopes that the rains will come at last.

The following day, as they marched to view the land that would lay the foundation for "new Zion", they were confronted by Maasai warriors dressed in war kits; “tall ostrich feather plumes waving ...

And no, they are not part of a martial arts club. They are Maasai girls living at a boarding school in Transmara in western Kenya, which doubles up as a rescue center for teens who have escaped ...