We spent a day living among the Maasai people, one of Kenya’s most iconic and resilient communities, and it completely ...
AT dawn in a village in Kenya's Maasai Mara wilderness, zebras rouse themselves and head away from the huts where they like ...
Last week, President Obama came to my country, Tanzania. President Kikwete and our people received him with great pride, but it is unlikely Obama heard anything about our government’s plan to give a ...
In June, state security forces in the United Republic of Tanzania engaged in a violent eviction campaign against Indigenous Maasai, shooting them and driving them from their lands. The attack took ...
Maasai elders in Tanzania. Credit: Roger de la Harpe/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. In the videos, the sound of gunfire can be heard as groups of about 100 or more Maasai, ...
“Look, giraffes are walking in front of me. We have hundreds of them in our conservancy. There are zebras, too, see! And elephants,” Nelson Ole Reiyia describes during a phone interview with Mongabay, ...
Deforestation, irregular rainfall and increased drought threaten food security in areas where the Maasai communities in Kenya live. By learning a range of green skills, Indigenous women are protecting ...
The return of stolen objects is helping Maasai people to rediscover community bonds lost generations ago. On a damp September morning, at the back entrance of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, UK, a ...
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 ...
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, the number ...