The case underscores tensions between luxury tourism and Maasai communities, who say development disrupts their land, ...

The Narok County government has dismissed reports published by The Sunday Standard about the cause of death of a popular lion ...

As Tanzania heads to the General Election on October 29, 2025, traditional Maasai leaders, known as Malaigwanan, are urging ...

No fences, no pylons, no concrete. That’s what allows the “Great Migration”, when more than a million wildebeest, zebra and ...

In Mwanza, Tanzania, Nairukoki Leyian-Naisinyai tells me that here, “Corporations come with papers from the government claiming that they have the right to our land.” She points to the large ...

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 ...

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 ...

A video taken in Kenya’s Maasai Mara on August 30, 2025, shows a small bird perched on a Chinese man’s messy hair, refusing ...

The formidable Maasai tribe have long been known as tall and fierce warriors, but they have recently also become unlikely fashion icons. A Kenyan clothing label has taken inspiration from the patterns ...

Imagine a Maasai warrior, or a Maasai woman adorned with beads - it's one of the most powerful images of tribal Africa. Dozens of companies use it to sell products - but Maasai elders are now ...

Six Maasai warriors from northern Tanzania, who will be running in the London Marathon, have opened an exhibition dedicated to the race. Isaya, who is leading the Maasai team, said previously: "Our ...

In the dusty savannah, Maasai warriors go about their day dressed in vibrant red and magenta robes, or shukas. Elaborate beaded jewelry dangle from the necks and faces of men and women — members of ...