Just over 100 years ago, Maasai in Kenya were moved into reserves, where they could be more easily taxed and controlled, to make way for white settlement.
A Maasai man receives a call on his mobile phone.
Timothy D. Baird/Virginia Tech
Maasai in Tanzania use their mobile phones all the time – usually to communicate with people they already know. But dialing errors can also breed friendships and business opportunities.
Masai giraffes in northern Tanzania.
Sonja Metzger
As the Maasai people of Kenya seek to expand their agricultural developments, the lives of one of Africa’s greatest creatures are being severely disrupted.
A group of Maasai women and children in Kenya.
Tim Cronin/CIFOR
How can we understand each other, especially when stereotypes cloud our view? An ethnographic movie captures a sense of the ‘other’ in an encounter between Maasai villagers and Dutch tourists.
The design and colours of the bead work convey particular messages.
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Colourful glass beads and red blankets play an important role in Maasai culture. But their origins are surprising, and provide an interesting insight into cultural exchanges between Europe and Africa.
A group of Maasai men look at the mobile phone belonging to one of them.
Timothy Baird
In Kenya there’s increasing individualisation of land tenure in pastoral areas. This will hurt the communities in the long term because it doesn’t enhance sustainable productive practices.
A new method of counting cheetahs has helped researchers to get a better idea of their numbers.
Mara Cheetah Project, Femke Broekhuis