living in rural areas, most Maasai people speak the official languages of Kenya and Tanzania, Swahili and English. The Maasai population has been reported...
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the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is named in honour of the Maasai people, the ancestral inhabitants of the area, who migrated to the area from...
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Maasai people, numbering about 1.5 million. It is closely related to the other Maa varieties: Samburu (or Sampur), the language of the Samburu people...
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Maasai may refer to: Maasai people Maasai language Maasai mythology MAASAI (band) Masai (disambiguation) Massai This disambiguation page lists articles...
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The Maasai religion is the traditional beliefs of the Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania. In Maasai culture, nature and its elements are important facets...
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increase the size. The Maasai are known for using materials such as animal bones, wood, stone, and tusks for jewelry. The Fulani people are from Nigeria and...
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Adumu (category Maasai)
Adumu, also known as the Maasai jumping dance, is a type of dance that the Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania practice. Young Maasai warriors generally perform...
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The Maasai Creed is a creed composed in 1960 by the Maasai people of East Africa in collaboration with missionaries from the Congregation of the Holy...
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regions are entitled to special protection. The Indigenous people from Tanzania's Maasai community were reportedly subjected to eviction from their ancestral...
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Soipan Tuya (category Maasai people)
secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry. She was the first Maasai woman to be in the Cabinet of Kenya. She was dismissed on 11th July 2024...
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Masai giraffe (redirect from Maasai Giraffe)
The Masai giraffe (Giraffa tippelskirchi), also spelled Maasai giraffe, and sometimes called the Kilimanjaro giraffe, is a species or subspecies of giraffe...
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name "Serengeti" is an approximation of the word siringet used by the Maasai people for the area, which means "the place where the land runs on forever"...
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Allah and on the belief that blacks were his chosen people. The traditional religion of the Maasai people from East Africa maintains that the Supreme God...
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the Maasai people also due to intermarriage prior to colonization. The Gĩkũyũ people between Thika and Mbeere are closely related to the Kamba people who...
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in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India Maasai people, an ethnic group in East Africa Maasai language, language of the Maasai ethnic group Masai (name), Kenyan...
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Mbatian (category Maasai people)
Mbatian (died 1890) was a Maasai laibon known for prophesies that he made and consequent victories by Maasai warriors that were attributed to him. Mbatian...
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with the Maasai people and are literally separated by the Kenya-Uganda railway from Athi-River to Kibwezi. Up until late 20th Century the Maasai and the...
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"Serengeti" is often said to be derived from the word "seringit" in the Maasai language, Maa, meaning "endless plains".[dubious – discuss] However, this...
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David Rudisha (category Maasai people)
up-and-coming runners from Kenya such as Bernard Lagat. Rudisha is a member of the Maasai ethnic group in Kenya. His father, Daniel Rudisha, was a former runner who...
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of circumcision was adopted by the Bamasaba from their in-laws the Maasai people. The men among the Bagisu tribe undergo initiation ceremonies known...
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unfamiliar outsiders they will almost always identify themselves as Maasai. Maasai people and other East Africans often refer to the Parakuyo as Kwavi, Loikop...
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religion (Nuer people of South Sudan) Maasai religion (Maasai people of Kenya) Sidama mythology (Sidama people of Ethiopia) Waaqeffanna (Oromo people of Ethiopia...
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Daniel Rudisha (category Maasai people)
Daniel Matasi Rudisha (August 11, 1945 – March 6, 2019) was a Kenyan sprint athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. Born in Kilgoris, Rift Valley...
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Nice Nailantei Leng'ete (category Maasai people)
of the 100 most influential people in the world. Nice Nailantei Leng'ete was born in 1991 in the village of Kimana in Maasai country, Kenya. She was orphaned...
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regions where the bird does not exist, as well as the United Nations. The Maasai people call it ol-enbai nabo, or "one arrow", referring to its crest feathers...
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Lion hunting (section Maasai lion hunting)
1927, no fewer than 1,272 lions were killed by park personnel. The Maasai people have traditionally viewed the killing of lions as a rite of passage...
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estimated third of the human population of Ethiopia and two-thirds of the Maasai people of Tanzania. The famine and the massive decrease in cattle population...
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groups: The Plain Nilotes speak Maa languages and include the Maasai, Samburu, and Turkana peoples The River Lake Nilotes include the Joluo (Kenyan Luo), who...
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criminal organization founded by Todd Phelps and other influential people that harass people belonging to discriminated groups. They appeared in the Disney+...
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based 80 percent on the Maasai people, five percent on samurai, five percent on ninjas, and five percent on the Ifugao people from the Philippines. The...
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