For Kenya’s Massai warriors, ritual is key. An adolescent rite of passage used to be pretty standard: Spend three months in the forest, learn how to herd cows, kill a predator. “Some years back, for ...

Eight of us are jammed into a safari truck swaddled in camping gear, edgy as cats, as we begin a night in the desert with Masai warriors. The rusty Toyota needs an overhaul. Its tires are bald, its ...

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 ...

Kenyan blogger James Adolwa writes about the Indo-Masai fusion dance, which took place at the French Cultural Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest ...

If a project backed by the United Nations (UN) takes off, the Maasai will join other indigenous communities that have recorded and copyrighted their native music and oral histories. The United Nations ...