The Maasai share their love for cattle with the Samburu, an ethnic group that lives in arid and semi-arid areas of northern Kenya and speaks a dialect of the Maa language that the Maasai speak ...

7, No. 1, 2016 Searching for Symbolic Value of Cattle: ... We examine metabolic, market, and symbolic values of livestock relative to cultural “positioning” by gender, marriage, and household ...

The NGO has also helped community members establish other businesses, like Maasai bead crafting and ... Where herders were ...

Warfare was meant to acquire and protect cattle as well as consolidate pasture. The Maasai terrorised their sedentary neighbours who practised agriculture like the Kikuyu, Kamba and Embu at will.

Wildlife and domestic livestock, like these zebras and cattle near Kenya's Masai Mara Reserve, cohabit rangeland ecosystems throughout many parts of Africa. This image relates to an article that ...

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. A young male lion was one of three members of Kenya’s famous Marsh Pride to die in 2015 after eating a cow carcass ...

Clad in traditional attire, the Maasai cattle herders are always found striding proudly with their heads of cattle inside the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, sharing pastures with wild animals ...

They’ve faced threats to their nomadic lifestyle, centred on cattle herding. The government claims the evictions are necessary to protect the environment from a large Maasai population.

“Cattle are our banks ... Naorokot Leboo, another Maasai herder from northern Tanzania, said that for decades, Maasai traders have faced logistical challenges, insecurity and exploitation ...

"We will fight for our land until the end" reads a sign by a Maasai woman in 2013 More than 100 Maasai huts in Tanzania have been allegedly burned down by game reserve authorities near the ...