By Elodie Toto “Look, giraffes are walking in front of me. We have hundreds of them in our conservancy. There are zebras, too ...

Ebb Valley Elementary School fourth-graders sat around tables, each with a thin, curved wire. The students slowly and methodically worked to put very small, glass beads onto the wire, one by one. As ...

The Maasai Football League in Amboseli is transforming young Maasai morans’ attitudes, reducing lion hunting, and promoting wildlife conservation while fostering local sporting talent.

Discover how the Maasai people in Kenya, facing devastating droughts and land degradation near Mount Kilimanjaro, are combating the impacts of climate change using traditional wisdom and innovative ...

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 ...

A mortified silence suddenly fell over our animated chatter. Joash ole Moi’s fingers trembled as he placed his mug of coffee on the oak table; his eyes trailed a couple – a young African man and an ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). “Simba!” The urgent whisper — ‘lion’ in Swahili — comes from Julius Naurori as he stands bolt upright in the back of our 4WD like a ...

In a theme issue on fashion, beauty, and culture, Robert Biswas-Diener writes on how beauty is viewed by the Masai people of eastern Africa. They “appear to have a uniquely healthy outlook on physical ...

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 ...