Masai
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A young Masai warrior. The Masai are a tall, nomadic people of Tanzania and Kenya.
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Masai villagers in Tanzania standing in front of a traditional mud hut.
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Masai girl standing inside a traditional mud hut, in Tanzania.
Member of an East African people whose territory is divided between Tanzania and Kenya. They number about 250,000, and speak a Nilotic language belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family. Traditionally they are warriors and pastoral nomads, but much of their land was taken over by European colonists and today there is considerable pressure on them from the Kenyan government to settle as farmers.
The Masai are divided into age grades, ranging from junior warriors to senior elders. Their basic diet is composed of milk and blood from their humped zebu cattle. They live in kraals, with their cattle, in groups of between four and eight families. Their cooperation is being sought by the Kenyan authorities to help in wildlife conservation.
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