The show opens with the throbbing of the kudu horn, a source of communication in African villages, and on cue a group of dancers, resplendent in traditional Maasai regalia, hum in typically deep ...

For Kenya’s Massai warriors, ritual is key. An adolescent rite of passage used to be pretty standard: Spend three months in the forest, learn how to herd cows, kill a predator. “Some years back, for ...

Children of the Maasai tribe perform a traditional jumping dance during the Enkipaata ceremony, a Maasai male rite of passage, specifically the initiation of boys, marking the transition from ...

Already there is lore about the Maasai dance troupe, and three days still remain before the performers wrap up their 35-day Washington area tour. There was the Takoma Park woman who decided, after ...

Bishop’s School’s Global Education Initiative and Dr. David Moseley, religious studies department chair, organized a Bishop’s middle school program on Nov. 18 that brought Aardvark Safaris Maasai ...

If a project backed by the United Nations (UN) takes off, the Maasai will join other indigenous communities that have recorded and copyrighted their native music and oral histories. The United Nations ...

When the Maasai tribal chief said he'd give 20 cows for me to be his seventh wife, my travel companions and I were jovially shocked. His first wife was not shocked — it was her idea. I told the chief ...

Lansdale’s Peace Project Kids for Peace will hold an open house featuring “Dancing with the Maasai, Singing with the Sudanese” on Saturday, May 7. The multicultural, interfaith, intertribal and ...

My name is Steve Ntwiga and this is my first post at Global Voices Online. I will be trying to fill a small part of Obi's huge shoes as I post on bloggers and sites that cover African music. The first ...

“…and let us take time to listen to one another. For, when we do, we will make the world a better place for all of us.” From Nicholas Sironka’s narrative for ...

The Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Prince and Great Steward of Scotland – Charles already has his fair share of grand titles. But today in Tanzania he was given a more humble name by a Maasai ...