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The Maasai (/ ˈ m ɑː s aɪ, m ɑː ˈ s aɪ /; [3] [4] Swahili: Wamasai) are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, near the African Great Lakes region. [5] Their native language is the Maasai language, [5] a Nilotic language related to Dinka, Kalenjin and Nuer.
However, Maasai Land is divided between the two countries, and the story of the Lost Girl ("Entito Naimina") or Lost Child ("Enkiyio Naimina") is well-known throughout all sections of Maasai Land. Loita High School, the only secondary school in Entasekera Area and the entire Loita Division is also found in the big southern part of the Loita ...
Maasai children holding up the textbooks funded through the Olalashe Foundation. Since the organization's inception, the Olalashe Foundation has helped bring 700 textbooks to Maasai schools.
In 2014, the Maasai elders, who rule over 1.5 million people, declared the end of the practice of FGM. Because of Leng'ete's work, girls become women in the Maasai community without undergoing FGM, continue their education, instead of marrying early and bearing children when most are still children themselves. [5]
The Maasai are an indigenous and prominent tribe in the area. Past ethnic clashes have occurred between the Maasai and the surrounding tribes due to land issues (e.g., cattle raiding). It is the divisional headquarters of the former Kilgoris Division (currently Trans-Mara West sub-County under the devolved administration system).
A child as Maasai herder in Kenya. Suda, in 2001, estimated that Kenya had 3 million children working in intolerable conditions and who were visible. The number of invisible child workers, claims Suda, were much larger.
Maasai Mara, also sometimes spelt Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is named in honour of the Maasai people , [ 2 ] the ancestral inhabitants of the area, who migrated to the area from the Nile Basin.
The Maasai also depend on grain cultivation, trading livestock for grain. For twenty years, they experienced a ban on cultivation, restrictions on Crater Highlands region and the spread of livestock disease. Because of the inability to cultivate, there was an increase in malnutrition increased in Maasai children.