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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 ...

KIMANA SANCTUARY, Kenya -- Kenya's most identifiable community is abandoning hunting lions with spears for javelin throwing at a biannual event called the Maasai Olympics. The Maasai people, renowned ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Serengeti—whose name means “endless plains” in the Maasai language—is one of the most renowned natural landscapes in the world. Spanning northern Tanzania and extending into southwestern Kenya, ...

Maasai Mara National Reserve, located in Narok County, Kenya has been included in the World Book of Records. In a letter addressed to Narok Governor Patrick Ole Ntuntu, World Book of Records President ...

The Mara-Serengeti ecosystem, which includes Kenya's Maasai Mara and Tanzania's Serengeti National Park, is one of the most famous and wildlife-rich areas in Africa. Every year, millions of animals ...

“No, no no!" girls shout as they strike a cushion. They are practicing fighting techniques. And no, they are not part of a martial arts club. They are Maasai girls living at a boarding school in ...