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THE MAASAI TRIBE OF KENYA Maasai tribe is the most well known tribe in Kenya and Tanzania.They are known to be very tall and fierce worriers, always wearing red cloths, which is called Shuka. Maasai people live a nomadic life. The men herd cattle and carry spears to protect their cattle from wild animals. The Maasai women are responsible for cooking, collecting sticks for the fire and building the home. They rely on their animals for food (including milk, meat and Animal blood) and walk for many miles with their animals to find Fresh food and water. The Maasai live in shelters called manyatta which are built from branches and grass. Most Maasai people live in the Maasai Mara Reserve which is a Large park in the South West of Kenya. It is named after the Maasai people who live there. Maasai homes do not have windows or chimneys so it is dark and smoky inside. Animal skins are laid on the floor and are used for warmth. There is no electricity or running water. When food and water run out the Maasai pack up their homes and walk across the land to a place where there is food and water for their animals, which are Goats, Lambs and Cows, the most important possessions for the tribe. The Maasai tribe has a deep, almost sacred, relationship with cattle. They are a proud pastoral tribe famous for their authentic culture, who have steadfastly clung to their traditional values and customs. The Maasai tribe of Kenya is world-famous for its beautiful beadwork, which is created by the women of the tribe and worn in rituals and ceremonies by both. Their diets are: Raw milk and Raw Blood and meat and Butter from their cattle, Ear piercing and the stretching of earlobes are also part of Maasai beauty, and both men and women wear metal hoops on their stretched earlobes. Theyoften walk barefooted or wear simple sandals made of cow hid. THE TRIBAL TRADITION OF THE MAASAI Most of 99% of Maasai women and GIrls have undergone type1 FGM/C know as a clitoridectomy, which involves the removal of the clitoral hood.. In a bid to protect their honour and the honour of the Maasai society, all Maasai girls who reach adolescence are circumcised. The aim of female genital mutilation therefore to limit the sexual desire and promiscuity of girls. Today, because the procedure often has to take place in hiding, female circumcision is mostly performed using shared and unsterilized objects, which causes severe bleeding, infection, inflammation of cells , tetanus and damage organs including the vaginal walls and often cause death, due to poor sanitary conditions and complications during childbirth. This practice is just to reduced sexual desire FGM/C is perceived as bringing honor to a girl and to her family; by making her eligible for marriage, it raises the status of her family in the eyes of society. The Maasai have held to the custom despite criminalisation of the practice by the Kenyan government in 2002. They still favour the practice of female genital mutilation, not because they are uninformed about the risks involved, but for fear of the social repercussions, should they reject the custom. Girls and women who refuse to be circumcised risk isolation, their chances of finding a Maasai spouse are reduced to almost nil, and their status in society will always be that of a . In 99% of the cases, FGM/C is “sponsored” by a prospective suitor. The rite includes a ceremony in which the entire community comes together to celebrate the girl’s passage to adulthood. This belief has contributed greatly to the practice of early marriage among the Maasai. But this is a DANGEROUS practice for the and young too. There is no Human Rights in this case as it is their practice and tribal tradition and it is done in many countries in Africa and in the Middle East also. I hope this info has pleased, thanks for your reading. and happy Viewing too. Lisa.            |
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So colorful. Looks very healthy too. The blog is highly informative , Thanks... Wish I am there too during the tribe's festivals. Lisa, how about you? Have a nice time Lisa. Regards!!
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Looklook hi Thank you for your interest in my blog. You are as usual warmly welcome. It's a great pleasure reading from you as the first one to visit and leaving your comments on this blog of mine. Great thanks to you. You are so right Looklook, this Maasai Tribe likes very colorful outfits and their main color is Red draper for the identity of their tribe, and for ceremonial events, they do wear all their traditional outfits and headdresses as well. I have been to Kenya many times, on Safari, Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya too and we have met these Maasais also, they are really wonderful people, very welcoming and invited us to their traditional dance. It's really a joy to see them, I had really appreciated their way and feeling towards foreigners. I would never refuse to go there again, for the beauty of the Wild life, the Nature and for this wonderful tribe also. Hope you can go to visit Kenya one day. Thanks again for your wonderful comments Looklook. I wish you all my best. Lisa.
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Ya-Ya dear, You are most welcome to my blog and I thank you so much for your wonderful comments and your keen questions, I am first of all very happy that you enjoy my blogs, it's a great pleasure for me. Ya-Ya, I have been living abroad for about 18 years in the past, I have traveled a lot of countries too. A total of 18 countries too. I am a teacher by profession and I have taught overseas for a long time also. So, my knowledge scope is so wide as I liked to know about all those countries too. That's why my blogs as you see them, are very different and on different topics too. I hope my info here, has reached to fulfill your kind curiosity I wish you a bright weekend and hope reading from you again. Kind regards. Lisa.
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Bearybeary hi. Thank you as usual for passing by leaving your nice comment, I appreciate them very much Bearybeary. It's so true, their beadwork is the most famous one in the world and very decorative too. Glad that it has pleased you. And thanks again. Best wishes for a happy weekend. Lisa.
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Billyguy hi. What a great pleasure reading you on my blog again. Thank you so much for your kind visit and for you wonderful comments too. Am so glad for your appreciation of my blog as well, Billyguy. You are so right, I like to vary my blogs for sure, to also please my readers on a variety of subjects. And as much as I can, I relate most of the most important issues of the topics. Thank you again Billy, hope reading you always in the future. Have a nice weekend, with my kind regards Lisa. .
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Spunky Lady Hi, I'm glad for your visit and your comments which are nice as usual. The FGM/C is, what I can call, a malpractice really.The wise God knows best why he has created men and women with different organs as such. Who are we to modify these and for what, just for the pleasure of the men only?. I call it stupidity and selfishness!!. Am so happy for not being from such countries, I am from Mauritius Island and nothing of this sort is being done in my country here. I wanted to share with my readers the cultures and traditions of these countries. I don't believe they would ever change it as this is their traditional pride as such. A pride on the expense on these female gender. I have traveled a lot of countries abroad and I am also so lucky to live in ( Mauritius), where we don't practice any sort of atrocities too. Have a nice day Spunky. Lisa.
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Again an interesting blog with colorful pictures! The lifelong health effects on the victims of FGM/C are described experientially by Waris Dirie in the book "Desert Flower".
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Evergreen, It's such a pleasure reading from you again, thanks again for all. Am so glad for your appreciation of my blog. I do my best to post sensible blogs as such for all my readers, who in return, show me their satisfaction and pleasure in reading them and for their wonderful comments. Thanks again Evergreen, wishing you a happy Sunday. Lisa.
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Lulu dear, I haven't at all deleted any comments of yours on my blog. On the contrary, I always keep safely all the comments on here. I am so surprised to read it from you now. I haven't got any comments on this blog, from you until this one Lulu. Please, check it out again and re-post it if there has been swap or so. And I believe that no one can delete your comments on my blog too, Lulu. Plz, let me know also. Lisa.
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Lulu dear, I haven't at all deleted any comments of yours on my blog. On the contrary, I always keep safely all the comments on here. I am so surprised to read it from you now. I haven't got any comments on this blog, from you until this one Lulu. Please, check it out again and re-post it if there has been swap or so. And I believe that no one can delete your comments on my blog too, Lulu. Plz, let me know also. Lisa.
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Looklook, Thanks for your kindness of clarifying this issue. I guess either a swap or a small mistake must have taken place. So I have asked Lulu to re-post her nice comments as usual. Thank you so much for your interest Looklook, Best wishes. Lisa.
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Hi Roxy, Am very happy seeing you on blog again. I thank you so much for your visit, for your nice comments and for your interest in the Maasai tribe as well. Yes, Roxy, first of all, the red color of the dress it a tradition color of their tribe and also to identify them. The land where they stay is always about red too but it depends on where they are cause they keep on roaming about for the food and water for their herd. Their famous beads are their tradition from generation to generation too. The designs of their beads, headdresses and collars are their typical and specialty as well. Their women design them themselves, as for the colors they produce them as well, the colors are self made from leaves, roots and soil.They do live as one tribe as they hardly marry from another tribe than theirs. But they are the strongest tribal worriers in Africa, they are very strong and well trained by their elders since their boyhood even and they do have level after level to be at last a confirm worrier. Hope my explanations have met the answers to your questions. Thanks again for your appreciation of my blog. Wishing you all my best. Lisa.
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Dear Lulu, Now I can see your comments you mentioned yesterday. You see, I had not removed your comments at all. This is something I will never do. Thanks again for your nice comments. I strongly oppose this type of cruelty done to these women, cause it has dangerous effects on them and most of all why removing a part with which they have been created and born with it?. It should be also done to the men to prevent their sexuality too, so as to be fair also!!!. Have a nice week Lulu. Lisa.
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11/24/2014 6:17 am |
There is an interesting book by a Swiss woman who married a Masai. It didn't last, of course.
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Rentier hi, Welcome to my blog, Am so pleased reading from you again and that it has also pleased you. Thanks for your visit and for your comments as well. Glad reading that a Swiss lady has written a book on the Maasai, to whom she was married before but didn't last. I guess the utmost reason was the difference of cultures between them. That lady's culture was the European style while the Maasai one is solely the forest type, they should have thought about it well before. The two cultures surely couldn't match, I believe. Anyhow she must have got a good experience and knowledge about the Maasai existance. Thanks for your info, wish you a peaceful week. Lisa.
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