Is a New $3,500-a-Night Safari Camp Blocking a Wildlife Corridor?

Ritz-Carlton’s luxury camp in Kenya’s Maasai Mara offers “front row seats” to the Great Migration. But some Maasai members and wildlife experts say it’s in a sensitive area and should not have been ...
Charlotte Observer

The continued displacement of the Maasai shows how tourism harms more than it helps, Part I

Google “Maasai” and search under the Images tab. You can either glance at the first few results or scroll for an hour and still come away with a singular image in mind, that of East Africans wearing ...
Mongabay News on MSN

In Kenya, Maasai private landowners come together to protect wildlife corridors

Look, giraffes are walking in front of me. We have hundreds of them in our conservancy. There are zebras, too, see! And ...
Crux

Faith-based group blasts Tanzania’s treatment of indigenous Maasai people

Maasai women spectators watch the Maasai Olympics in Kimana Sanctuary, southern Kenya Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022. (Credit: Brian Inganga/AP.) Listen YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – A faith-based group composed of ...
CNN

Finding the meaning of home in Africa

That’s how you’re greeted at Sanctuary Olonana in the Masai Mara, a remote 583-square-mile national reserve in southeastern Kenya where wildlife and Maasai villagers coexist. “Welcome home.” Thing is, ...
The Atlantic

The Threat of African Tribalism

BEFORE World War II few Africans had any conception of Africa as a whole or of themselves as Africans. They thought of themselves instead as Kikuyu, Buganda Bahutu, or men of any other of the ...