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 ...

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 ...

If a project backed by the United Nations (UN) takes off, the Maasai will join other indigenous communities that have recorded and copyrighted their native music and oral histories. The United Nations ...

NAROK, Kenya -- In the heart of Kenya, Mary Solio found refuge from a forced marriage but not from female circumcision -- two cultural traditions that some women in the Masai tribe are working to ...