“I would like to think that women have the added advantage of a great ability to trust their intuition, which is a great attribute to have in ranger work. This coupled with our ability to bring our ...

A photo exhibition celebrating the resilience of Indigenous women in the face of climate change - as seen through the eyes of Maasai women. [Courtesy] Indigenous women from the Maasai community have ...

Members of Kimana women group at Oloitokitok, Kajiado county preparing their beed work ahead of the Maasai culture festival week. [Peterson Githaiga, Standard] With the Maa Cultural Week now underway, ...

20-something California entrepreneur Mindy Budgor wanted to find meaning beyond mani pedis, just-out-of-the-oven croissants (her fave), and her BMW, so she decided to become the Maasai tribe’s ...

“We are tired of moving.” This is what several Maasai men and women residing in the Endulen village in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) told us last July when we asked them about the ...

A crowd erupts in cheers as a young Maasai woman pelts over the finish line, the latest participant in the "Maasai Olympics", a re-imagining of a traditional coming-of-age rite in the rolling Kenyan ...

Conservation efforts can sometimes displace entire communities and upend livelihoods and ways of life, without ever consulting the women impacted. Some community consultation efforts only, or mostly, ...

In the fenceless safari zones of southern Kenya, the Maasai have lived for centuries in symbiosis with wildlife — and smaller, more intimate camps can help give guests a window into their remarkable ...