CHIMACUM — Nakaji Lukumai stood in her Maasai shuka, a traditional dress that represents her people in northern Tanzania. The eldest of 56 children, she was the first woman in her tribe to go to ...

Few communities reveal both the challenges and opportunities presented by cultural globalism more than Maasai communities in northern Tanzania. Traditionally pastoralists, the Maasai ethnic group’s ...

Circumcised Maasai young men wearing new cloths and accessories come out from the bush near Kilgoris, Kenya, on the last day of the annual one-month-long circumcision ceremony, on December 20, 2017.

KIMANA SANCTUARY, Kenya -- Kenya's most identifiable community is abandoning hunting lions with spears for javelin throwing at a biannual event called the Maasai Olympics. The Maasai people, renowned ...

Longido, Tanzania – Life used to be good, according to Kariungi Leng’ese, a Maasai elder in northern Tanzania. “When I was young, we never had droughts like this. Life was good,” he said. “Nowadays, ...

When you give a Maasai warrior a 7-iron, he instinctively compares it to the spear in his other hand. He carries that traditional, effective weapon every day from his adolescent rites of passage ...

Mobile phones have the power to change the lives of women living in remote communities by reducing barriers to information and increasing access to local economies. However, the introduction of new ...

In Mwanza, Tanzania, Nairukoki Leyian-Naisinyai tells me that here, “Corporations come with papers from the government claiming that they have the right to our land.” She points to the large ...

A woman who abandoned her husband and three children to start a relationship with a Maasai warrior in Kenya has spoken out about her regrets and the emotional impact of that period in her life. Now 65 ...