Dressed in colorful red, blue and white cloth, with necklaces of white beads adorning his chest, 28-year-old Ole Lelein Kanunga sings and dances with his fellow Maasai warriors. He is carrying a long ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...