Video: Maasai tribe song&dance

This is the sort of thing I think we’ll be making… One major difference being my companion’s father spent his early life growing up with some of the Maasai that agreed to host us. Thus I expect to be going just a little bit further with it… after all, we are presenting it on the Great Wall [...]

tradition Jump: Maasai song&dance

The Maasai are known to be one of the few societies in the world that still practice their traditional ways, but outside influences are slowly overtaking the old ways and replacing them with new modern methods. Loita are among the remaining part of these Maasai that are still holding their culture without big outside influence. [...]

how many Cows have You got?

I was looking through some of my previous posts and thought: I keep talking about herding the Maasai’s cattle but… why would that be the big to-do in a society? So I surfed a bit and came up with a bit of info:
Apparently cattle to the Maasai are a type of currency. In fact, that’s [...]