Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Schoolchildren and their parents from the Maasai people at a school event in rural Kenya. The Maasai, probably the best-known ...

Every year, over a million animals move in a continuous loop between Tanzania and Kenya. Here’s what the Great Migration actually is, who’s in it, and why ecologists consider it one of the planet’s ...

Paragliding over the Masai Mara offers a unique opportunity to witness the breathtaking African landscape and wildlife from ...

Twenty-four years have passed since September 11, 2001. Kimeli Naiyomah, a proud member of the Maasai Tribe, stood in New York City that day, watching the towers fall. The country that had lifted him ...

Spanning more than 1,500 square kilometers, Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve serves as one of the African continent’s crown jewels for ecotourism, with a truly staggering array of native species ...

For Nadutari Tingisha, making beaded jewelry is the only job she’s ever known. “Beading is something we grew up doing, so we will never give up on it,” she says. She typically spends her days hawking ...

I was at a conference in Kenya when I first met a member of the Maasai, a group of people who live in East Africa. He had a question for me – and the answers could have the potential to dramatically ...

This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, and Native News Online. In Tanzania, the ...

A tourist shop for clothing and jewelry in a Maasai open-air market in Atone, Kenya. Shutterstock To sum it up in one word, the aesthetics of the Maasai are iconic. I say aesthetics and not culture ...

The Maasai have roamed Tanzania since time immemorial. Cattle in tow, the East African pastoralists have circled the land looking for fresh grass, co-existing with nature for as long as anyone can ...

A Masai giraffe in Arusha National Park, Tanzania. Credit: Wild Nature Institute Giraffes are Tanzania's national animal and beloved around the world. Despite their popularity, however, populations of ...