Tanzania has a long and troubling history of evicting communities from their lands. This has happened under the guise of ...

The blood, milk and meat of cattle have long been staple foods for Maasai pastoralists in Kenya, perhaps the country's most recognizable community. But climate change is forcing the Maasai to ...

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.

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 ...

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.

As Maasai, it's where we store our money ... as much as they protect the community's cattle from the lions. "Since 2010 there have been more losses of lions from retaliatory killings than ...

ARUSHA, Tanzania—The Maasai once herded their cattle across the plains of what is now southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. The British colonial government split off a 2 million-acre tract for ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Lemayain Ikoyo looking after his cattle. [Courtesy] The Maasai community living along the ...

"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 ...

Over in Kajiado County, pastoralist Maiyani Melonye tends to his cattle. He was raised between the plains of Maasai Mara and the hills of Oldonyo-Sabuk, an expanse divided by more than 300 ...