Edith Santiyian started a foundation dedicated to reforestation using fruit trees
Protracted effort by authorities to evict the pastoralists in Loliondo for safari tourism has led to violent confrontation
Across the continent, women are helping to reimagine a sacred rite of passage in an effort to honour their cultures and spare their bodies.
When TB strikes, the fight to live can come at the cost of a way of life for the country’s nomads. This could help ease the pain.
Girls as young as 10 feel the blade but an extraordinary group is fighting against female genital mutilation (FGM).
Plans to turn ancestral Maasai land into a reserve for a Dubai royal family appears to be going ahead.
An initiative to get young rural girls into school is paying dividends in Tanzania.
Some of the Kenya’s Maasai young women are running away from of the age-old custom of circumcision, now frayed by health risks and new laws.
The Masai Mara is Kenya’s iconic game reserve, with almost inconceivable numbers of wildlife grazing, hunting, mating, birthing and dying across mile upon mile of undulating savannah.
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/ 27 November 2008
In an extract from their new book, Peter and Beverly Pickford share their vision of Ngorongoro, a world heritage site and the Maasai’s sacred place.
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/ 5 September 2008
Maasai warrior Lempuris Lalasho went to Kenya’s tourist haven Mombasa to find a white woman to marry, but he ended up working as a hairdresser.
Kenyans voted on Wednesday for five parliamentary seats that will decide who holds the majority, a test of stability in the East African nation.