Maasai Rites Of Passage Part 1

The Maasai are arguably Africa's most famous tribe. Unlike most other Kenyan ethnic groups, they have largely retained their traditional lifestyles. Each Maasai man goes through the warrior stage, a period in their life between boyhood and becoming a man. And one can only become a warrior through several rituals. Willis Raburu has the details in this first part of our series, rites of passage.

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Only here because of school

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Anthropology class

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Why was the motorcycle beeping his horn so long??!

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So they live in a National park??

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I love how the whole "community" takes part in the support of the young men becoming Maasi Warriors! I wouldn't say that I would drink the blood of a bull but if this was my culture and the only way for me to become a man, get married, and to have respect then I would do so. I wonder if any of the young warriors vicissitude changed once they realized that they had to get circumcised as teenager?

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Ok

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Yategemea umekatwa na Mila gani coz uwa n ngumu utalia mwezi bila kuamka

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The original "running of the bulls"

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My Ageset live long

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