Already there is lore about the Maasai dance troupe, and three days still remain before the performers wrap up their 35-day Washington area tour. There was the Takoma Park woman who decided, after ...

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 ...

Nairobi — Dancing to the shrills of crickets and voices of talking villagers doesn't sound like an easy or even exciting task. It is even more challenging when it is meant to entertain an audience.

Children of the Maasai tribe perform a traditional jumping dance during the Enkipaata ceremony, a Maasai male rite of passage, specifically the initiation of boys, marking the transition from ...

The show opens with the throbbing of the kudu horn, a source of communication in African villages, and on cue a group of dancers, resplendent in traditional Maasai regalia, hum in typically deep ...

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.