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 ...

MAPARASHA HILLS, Kenya (Reuters) – Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ochre gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran ...

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 ...

In the movie "Warriors," they use their status from playing cricket to speak out against FGM. And the game's fun, too. You've never seen a sports team like this one. Dotted across a dusty rectangle of ...

A tourist shop for clothing and jewelry in a Maasai open-air market in Atone, Kenya. Shutterstock To sum it up in one word, the aesthetics of the Maasai are iconic. I say aesthetics and not culture ...

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 ...

Maasai women sing for their men of Matapato clan before attending the Olng'esherr passage ceremony in Maparasha hills of Kajiado MAPARASHA HILLS, Kenya (Reuters) - Thousands of Maasai men clad in red ...

To sum it up in one word, the aesthetics of the Maasai are iconic. I say aesthetics and not culture because consumption of this static imagery is more akin to commodification rather than a broadening ...

MAPARASHA HILLS, Kenya, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ochre gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from ...

Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders). Around ...