By Juliet AkothWhen the wind rises over Olooloitikosh village in Kajiado County, it sweeps dust across the dry ground as goats, sheep and cattle gather at a community borehole to drink. But the ...

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 ...

The story of wildlife conservation in East Africa is often told through spectacular images of beautiful scenery and the region’s charismatic animals. But seldom asked is the question about how those ...

Twenty-four years have passed since September 11, 2001. Kimeli Naiyomah, a proud member of the Maasai Tribe, stood in New York City that day, watching the towers fall. The country that had lifted him ...

In 2022, the government of Tanzania began relocating Indigenous Maasai pastoralists from their ancestral home inside and near Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Locals say they’ve been forcibly evicted ...

Children of the Maasai tribe perform a traditional jumping dance during the Enkipaata ceremony, a Maasai male rite of passage, specifically the initiation of boys, marking the transition from ...