In the deep and seemingly endless expanse of Kenya’s arid rangelands, where the golden sun scorches the parched earth and the acacia trees stand as quiet sentinels over the land, a unique story of ...

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, ...

They’ve faced threats to their nomadic lifestyle, centred on cattle herding. The government claims the evictions are necessary to protect the environment from a large Maasai population.

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 ...

The senator stated that if all Maasai voters were united, the community could easily deliver no less than 1.4 million votes for the two leaders. He noted that he saw a great opportunity for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meat is an essential part of daily life for Kenya's Maasai. But Anthony Mututua is a rare vegetarian. His body is meat intolerant. How does he cope in a culture based around meat? Video produced ...

More than 70,000 Indigenous Maasai people are at risk of being evicted from their ancestral grazing lands to make way for a tourism operation after a paramilitary group arrived on 7 June in the Maasai ...

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 ...

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 ...