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 ...

Facing drought and livestock loss, Maasai women in Northern Kenya are turning to cricket farming as a sustainable alternative ...

Indigenous Maasai pastoralists see carbon credit projects being pushed by global powers as a new wave of land dispossession - ...

You must have seen Maasai herders turning the city into shamba la wanyama with hundreds of their cattle. Abba Mburu, a business analyst, says cows are biological assets with their value being ...

The Maasai, like other pastoralists all over Africa, have lived for centuries earning their livelihood from herding livestock, cows, goat and sheep, roaming over hundreds of kilometers in search of ...

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 ...

Members of the Hindu Council of Kenya have resorted to a unique relief supply effort to alleviate suffering for Maasai herders, who have migrated with their cattle to areas near Nairobi and other ...

By 1911, colonial authorities had moved nearly all the Maasai to distant reserves in the country’s south, converting land that had been used for livestock forage into farms and cattle ranches.