Nowadays a tourist's snapshot is just as likely to show a Masai warrior with a mobile phone stuck in his beaded belt as a spear in his hand. The Masai, of course, have always been mobile. "Until 10 ...

The Maasai have roamed Tanzania since time immemorial. Cattle in tow, the East African pastoralists have circled the land looking for fresh grass, co-existing with nature for as long as anyone can ...

A bumpy dirt road led us away from the two-lane highway. We were in northern Tanzania in the lands of the Maasai and bomas, where clusters of earthen homes, protected by circular fences of vicious ...

Maasai warrior Kamunu Saitoti had been hunting for the better part of a day when at last he came across lion tracks in the dusty soil. It was 2007 in the Maasai-owned territory of Eselenkei in ...

“We are tired of moving.” This is what several Maasai men and women residing in the Endulen village in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) told us last July when we asked them about the ...

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 ...

On one of the world’s most famous game reserves, it’s mostly predators (such as lions, hyenas, and crocodiles) eating prey. There is, however, human life. While the tourists come and go, many ...