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5 unusual facts about Maasai people


Juan Segura

In 2002 made his second trip to Africa, visiting tribes Maasai in Kenya and Tanzania.

Maasai people

In Eastern Africa, uncircumcised women, even those highly educated members of parliament like Linah Kilimo, can be accused of not being mature enough to be taken seriously.

Man I Used to Be

Footage of Maasai are seen on k-os's screen and the spacecraft enters warp drive.

White Highlands

The original indigenous occupants of the land were predominantly from the Kalenjin, Maasai and Kikuyu tribes.

The Maasai tribe, who are pastoralists, found the amount of grazing land considerably reduced as the White Highlands expanded.


Jacqueline Roumeguere-Eberhardt

She conducted pioneering research in Southern Africa (among the Venda, Tsonga, Shona, Lozi, Bushmen), Central (among the Gbaya) and Kenya (among the Maasai, Samburu, El Molo, Rendille and unidentified hominids), which led her to develop the project "Totemic Geography of Africa "(TGA).

Mazinde

Johann Jakob Erhardt recorded the repulse of a Maasai raid in 1853 at Mazinde by an allied army of Shambaa under Semboja, son of Kimweri ye Nyumbai, and of Wazigua, Parakuyo and "Arabs" (most likely Swahili).

Roosevelt in Africa

Among the scenes captured by Kearton's camera were a number of Kikuyu and Maasai gatherings and dances – although the Maasai were incorrectly identified in the film's slates as "Zulus."

Shetani

In Alan Dean Foster's 1986 horror/fantasy novel, Into the Out Of, elders of the Maasai people become aware that from the south of them in the Ruaha wilderness of Tanzania a global crisis is approaching.

Sonjo language

The Sonjo have lived for centuries as an isolated enclave in Maasai territory.

Suji, Kilimanjaro

The majority of the villagers are of the Pare tribe (legend holds that they moved up the mountains as a security measure in a similar way other villages built forts. Their main antagonists were Maasai warriors who they call 'Kwavi' and Chagga).

Taveta people

The Tavetan population is commingled with other tribes, notably the Taita, Pare, Chaga, and Maasai.


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