To make way for the Europeans ( largely Britons and whites from South Africa ), the Maasai were restricted to the southern Loieta plains in 1913.

Low levels of maternal gene flow from North Africa and the Horn of Africa were also observed in a few groups, mainly via the presence of mtDNA haplogroup M and haplogroup I lineages in about 12. 5 % of the Maasai and 7 % of the Samburu samples, respectively.

Among pastoralist communities in East Africa, such as the Nandi, Tugen and Maasai communities, ghee and flocculated byproducts ( kamaek ) from ghee-making were traditionally used as cooking oil.

The Kisii ended up in a geographical location unique among Bantu speaking groups in that they were surrounded on all sides by initially, and later sporadically hostile Nilotic communities of the Luo, Kipsigis, Nandi, and Maasai.

Amongst the Gikuyu ( Kikuyu ) people of Kenya and the Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania, male circumcision has historically been the graduation element of an educational program which taught tribal beliefs, practices, culture, religion and history to youth who were on the verge of becoming full-fledged members of society.

Another people, the Ongamo or Ngasa who were closely related in language to the Maasai, did have much influence on Chagga history.

The Kroot were designed to have the physique of a Maasai warrior or a professional level basketball player.

Maasai pastoralists were removed from their lands when the park was created.

Moreover, although it was sparsely populated by small bands of Maasai ( themselves having recently conquered the Sirikwa tribe ), the Maasai were hostile to other tribes and outsiders.

The original occupants of the land were predominantly from the Kalenjin, Maasai and Kikuyu tribes.

Several days later, Kariuki's remains were found by a Maasai herdsman, Musaita ole Tunda, in a thicket in the Ngong Hills.

" In the 1980s, however, Corinne Kratz and James Woodburn visited Akie groups in Tanzania during survey research and found that they were fully bilingual in Akie and Maasai.

Two of his large paintings of members of the Maasai tribe whom he met in Kenya while filming " Trader Horn " were prominently displayed in his Santa Barbara home in 1971.

In their musical and stylistic embrace of both traditional Maasai culture and American hip hop, X Plastaz were faced with a common issue in African contemporary and pop music, i. e., adapting what could be seen as a colonialist tradition to their own culture, while contributing to the development of the national and cultural identity of their country and their people.

After being defeated by the Purko Maasai in the 1870s, the Kore fled to north-eastern Kenya where they were taken captive by Somali people.

With the arrival in 1903 of hundreds of prospective settlers, chiefly from South Africa, questions were raised concerning the preservation for the Maasai of their rights of pasturage, and the decision was made to entertain no more applications for large areas of land.

British Empire traders were demanding a route that would avoid the fearsome Maasai and the hostile Germans who were competing for trade in the area.

Earlier, when the Maasai were still dominant in the eastern part of Mt.

The Maasai Mara National Reserve ( also spelled Masai Mara ; known by the locals as The Mara ) is a large game reserve in south-western Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.

The more visited eastern part of the park is managed by Narok County Council and the western part, known as the Mara Triangle, by the Trans-Mara county council, which is contracting management to the Mara Conservancy, a local nonprofit organization formed by the local Maasai that contains several anti-poaching units.

The outer areas known as Maasai Mara Conservation area is administered by the Group Ranch Trusts of the Maasai community who also have their own rangers for patrolling the park area.

In Africa, the hippo is known by various names, including Seekoei ( Afrikaans ), Mvuvu ( Venda ), Kubu ( Lozi ) and Mvubu ( Xhosa, Siswati and Zulu ) in the south ; Kiboko ( Swahili ), Ensherre ( Nkore ), Tomondo ( Turu ), Nvubu ( Luganda ), Ifuru ( Luhya ), Emiria ( Ateso ), Magawit ( Sebei ), Kibei ( Kalenjin ) and Olmakau ( Maasai ) in the Great Lakes region ; and Gumarre ( Amharic ) and Jeer ( Somali ) in the Horn.

The people of the Rift Valley are a mesh work of different tribal identities, and the Kalenjin and the Maasai are two of the best known ethnic groups.

Sometimes Samburu extras are used to portray members of the closely related, but better known, Maasai ethnic group as in the film The Ghost and the Darkness, starring Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer.

It was known as " Ol Doinyo Ilgoon " ( Breast Mountain ) by the Maasai and as " Masaba " on the Ugandan side.

In 1883, Joseph Thompson was the first European to penetrate the feared Maasai region known as Empusel ( meaning ' salty, dusty place ' in Maa ).

The Masai Giraffe ( Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi ), also known as the Maasai Giraffe or Kilimanjaro Giraffe, is the largest subspecies of giraffe and the tallest land mammal.

Merege is also well known to perform in traditional Maasai clothings.

In 1997 X Plastaz visited a traditional Maasai village west of Arusha and met Yamat Ole Meipuko, also known as Merege, who was the local " singing champion " in his age class.

( both adumu and aigus are Maa verbs meaning " to jump " with adumu meaning " To jump up and down in a dance ") has made Maasai warriors known for, and often photographed during, this competitive jumping.

The " Emuratare " is the circumcision ceremony that is required for Maasai boys to become warriors.

The warriors of the Maasai nation of Kenya are famous for their long, thin, red dreadlocks.

Later, Remington arrives with skilled Maasai warriors to help kill the lions.

It is especially associated with Maasai morans ( male warriors ) who have traditionally used it in warfare and for hunting.

Inspiration was drawn from the African Maasai warriors ' ritual scar markings.

He had provided the first credible reports of snow-capped mountains on the Equator and had terrified the Maasai warriors by removing his false teeth and claiming to be a magician.

* Adumu is a Maasai dance which is performed during Eunoto, the coming of age ceremony of warriors.

To avoid this, he lived with Maasai relatives in Narok, where he worked as a clerk for an Asian contractor.

Nomadic Maasai lived and herded their cattle among the wildlife.

He lived amongst the Maasai tribe for 3 years to study the behaviour of a lions ' family and took daily pictures of them during those years.

The most prominent of these groups include the Luo, Maasai, the Samburu, the Turkana, and the Kalenjin.

Unlike most other National Parks in Kenya the Maasai Mara National Reserve is not administered by the Kenya Wildlife Service, but by local authorities.

Spoken by the Maasai people of Kenya, one of the most well-known African peoples internationally.

The Maasai people have the most recognizable cultural identity, both nationally and internationally, and serve as Kenya's international cultural symbol.

One of the most powerful examples of communities being moved in order to create a park is the story of the Maasai.

Dreadlocks are associated most closely with the Rastafari movement, but people from many ethnic groups in history before them have worn dreadlocks, including many ancient Semitic and Indo-Aryan peoples of the Near East and Asia Minor, Sadhus of Nepal, India and the Sufi Rafaees, the Māori people of New Zealand, the Maasai and the Oromo of Ethiopia, and the Sufi malangs and fakirs of Pakistan, and medieval Irish Warriors.

South of the capital city Nairobi, Amboseli National Park is the second most popular national park in Kenya after Maasai Mara National Reserve and the visit can easily be done in a weekend.

They also collected more than 400 ethnographical objects, most of them from Maasai and Kikuyu tribes and brought home a valuable collection of plants and animals.

Teleki and von Höhnel made numerous observations on the climate, flora and fauna of the territories visited and collected more than 400 ethnographical objects, most of them from Maasai and Kikuyu tribes.

X Plastaz hip hop is slower paced that most African hip hop and strongly characterized by Maasai deep chanting.

They are found along most of the perimeter, though camps are few along most of the Serengeti, which is Maasai territory.