The Maasai culture is a unique one [Medium] ... Traditionally, marriages are arranged by elders, with the bride's family receiving a dowry of cattle from the groom's family. The spitting ceremony.

In a remote Maasai community in Kenya, ... And then they take back the cows (as bride price)," explains Musheni. 15-year-old Purity Risanoi has been at the school for five years.

Here, life depends on adaptation. The Maasai have, ... a girls’ empowerment school led by a former child bride has witnessed a 60% increase in female enrollment over the past three years.

Kenya’s 1.2 million Maasai people are profoundly affected both by climate change and the shrinking of the grazing land available to them, both because of urbanization and agricultural expansion.

The 2022 forced evictions of Indigenous Maasai from Ngorongoro Conservation Area ... indicating a desperate move by parents to make a bit of money from the bride price and have one less ...

A typical Maasai girl was traditionally viewed as a source of wealth for the father in form of bride price. At a tender age, they used to undergo Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) making them ...

The Maasai representatives who visited in 2018 identified five objects, out of the 188, that were especially sensitive. These are objects of inheritance, meant to stay within the family.