Dynamic Africa
Formerly, "This is Africa/fyeahAfrica".
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(since Oct. 21th 2012)
Maasai combs, Kenya
The Tanzanian government has ordered thousands of Masai to abandon traditional grazing lands to make way for a conservation site.
But the Maasai are refusing to leave their ancestral land. They say the real reason they are being forced out is to give a Dubai-based hunting company exclusive access.
Wildlife Instead, the hunting company, says that it will bring clients in for a six-month season and the Maasai can graze their cattle out of season. However, researchers say that the livestock are a part of the area’s ecosystem.
Al Jazeera’s Peter Greste reports from Lolyondo in northern Tanzania.
Two Masai Warriors
Artist: Gail Zavala
The people of Kenya’s Maasai Mara are struggling to preserve their culture and environmental heritage.
On behalf of Al Jazeera’s ‘Witness’ series, filmmakers Tom Evans and Kevin Rushby look into thecommercial development, in favour of tourism, that is threatening Maasai traditions as well as the wildlife in the region, and the initiatives of the Naboisho Conservancy project that aim to preserve the ownership of Maasai land and the natural environment within and surrounding it.
The girlfriend of a young Masai man measures and admires his hair.
Amongst the Masai, warriors are the only members of the community permitted to wear their hair long, which is usually woven into tiny twists that are dressed and styled with animal fat and ocher. Some then use cotton or wool threads to lengthen their hair.
When become elders and go through the Eunoto, their long locks are shaven off.
(East Africa, circa 1967 | Ph: Mirella Ricciardi)
