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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah stood between two very different lives. He grew up in Enoosaen, a rural village near the Maasai Mara with limited access to basic infrastructure. As a child, he had to push ...

Herding their cattle over the grassy uplands rolling down from Kilimanjaro in what is now Kenya and Tanganyika, the Masai were fierce, sensual warriors who used dung and ochre for hair oil and drank ...

Twenty-four years have passed since September 11, 2001. Kimeli Naiyomah, a proud member of the Maasai Tribe, stood in New York City that day, watching the towers fall. The country that had lifted him ...

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In Tanzania, the Indigenous Maasai face an ongoing, violent campaign to evict them from their lands and make way for protected conservation areas and hunting reserves. This week, the Maasai are in New ...

In the early hours of Aug. 18, thousands of Indigenous Maasai people blocked the road to one of Tanzania’s biggest tourist attractions, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), in protest against the ...

A new study has found the pastoral practices of the Indigenous Maasai people of Kenya had almost no discernible positive or negative effect on the ecological well-being of the Maasai Mara National ...

A London man shared the joy of Pokémon with members of the Maasai tribe in Zanzibar and their reactions are pure magic. Josiah Campbell, 27, captured the heartwarming moment he introduced Pokémon ...

This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, and Native News Online. In Tanzania, the ...