Esther doesn't seem to notice the expansive landscape, the distant line of mountains across the border in Tanzania or the thorn acacias dotting the savannah. Eyes shining, the 11-year-old in her blue ...

Maasai beadwork is not just an art form but a cultural expression that has been passed down through generations ...

When you give a Maasai warrior a 7-iron, he instinctively compares it to the spear in his other hand. He carries that traditional, effective weapon every day from his adolescent rites of passage ...

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 ...

Maasai warrior Kamunu Saitoti had been hunting for the better part of a day when at last he came across lion tracks in the dusty soil. It was 2007 in the Maasai-owned territory of Eselenkei in ...

In Kenya's Maasai Mara, local people say a new luxury safari hotel is threatening the ecosystem – and the livelihoods of ...

The formidable Maasai tribe have long been known as tall and fierce warriors, but they have recently also become unlikely fashion icons. A Kenyan clothing label has taken inspiration from the patterns ...

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When this year began, commentator Marika Partridge resolved she would try to do less and enjoy life more. Her calendar was cluttered with commitments and she couldn't see a way out. Then she got an ...

Four years after a group of Kenyan Maasai herders touched the hearts of Americans by donating 14 head of prized cattle to the US to help ease the pain of the 11 September attacks, a new home has been ...

When Nice Nailantei Leng’ete was a child growing up in the Kenyan village of Kiana, she was expected to undergo the Maasai practice of “female cutting” – commonly referred to as female genital ...