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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nairobi — Dancing to the shrills of crickets and voices of talking villagers doesn't sound like an easy or even exciting task. It is even more challenging when it is meant to entertain an audience.

As a tribe that has preserved most aspects of its culture, from dressing to customs, the Maasai are one of the most recognizable tribes from Kenya, often used as a symbol of Kenya's culture. Curious ...

Vanessa Wijngaarden received funding from the Iwalewahaus of the University of Bayreuth. Maasai warriors wearing red and women wearing beads have come to be seen as symbols of “traditional” Africa.