Children, barely taller than their walking sticks, begin the long, winding journey to school, their tiny shadows merging with those of the morning gazelles that skip past thorny bushes. The road is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Schoolchildren and their parents from the Maasai people at a school event in rural Kenya. The Maasai, probably the best-known ...

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 to ...

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 ...

Maasai women demonstrate how to take care of a baby during a workshop to discuss caregiving at Maili 46 in Kajiado West. [Peterson Githaiga, Standard] A new report has shown that Maasai men are not ...

Wearing his traditional red shuka and holding a spear, Issac Loilet sat outside his Tanzanian mud hut to ponder his fate, as the government continued evicting his tribespeople from their northern ...

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 ...

This week American tennis players – brothers John and Patrick McEnroe – are set to host a luxury tennis-themed safari tour in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), where Indigenous Maasai ...

OLAIMUTIAI, Kenya — In the bracing morning cold in the forest highlands overlooking Kenya’s Maasailand, 900 teenage boys clad in traditional Maasai shukhas or blankets line up for a cup of hot milk ...