Kenya’s Maasai warriors gather to celebrate “Maasai Olympics”, a rite of passage
Kimana Sanctuary, Kenya Reuters Hundreds of youths from the Maasai pastoralists in Kenya gathered on Saturday at a wildlife sanctuary to participate in “Maasai Olympics,” a ceremony promoted by conservationists as an alternative rite of passage for young men in the community. The spectacle, in which youthful morans or warriors compete in various games and […]
COVID-19 impacts: Pandemic decimates livelihoods of Kenya’s Maasai
NITA BHALLA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how Kenya’s Massai are being impacted by the coronavirus outbreak around the world…
Female genital mutilation is a man’s issue too, says Kenyan Maasai activist
Thomson Reuters Foundation Kenyan campaigners against FGM, Natalie Robi and Amos LEuka, are pictured after speaking at an event in London marking International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM on Tuesday. PICTURE: Emma Batha/Thomson Reuters Foundation. Kenya could end female genital mutilation in a generation, campaigners from its conservative Maasai and Kuria communities said on […]
AFRICA: IN KENYA, A PASTOR FIGHTS FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION WITH THE GOSPEL
FREDRICK NZWILI, of Religion News Service, reports on how one pastor is challenging the practice of female circumcision…