Angel and her sisters are part of the Maasai culture that inhabits both Northern Tanzania and Southern Kenya. In the summer of 2023, all the sisters including Angel had to celebrate coming of age to ...

KIMANA, Kenya (Reuters) - Under the shadow of a snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro, hundreds of Maasai boys brave the morning chill to take part in a ritual that marks their coming of age. But those ...

Women pass on the art of this pastoralist architecture to their daughters and daughters-in-law. Men are forbidden from this work. The Maasai believe a man who builds a manyatta will die.

Mollel’s film, New Era: Maasai Coming of Age, won top honors in the short/long form nonfiction ... I found myself becoming an artist because of the choices I was making.” Angel Mollel (CritMedia'24) ...

Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders). Around 15,000 ...

KILGORIS - Hundreds of Maasai "Moran" (warriors), aged 18 to 26, take part in the "Eunoto" ceremony in western Kenya, a vital rite of passage that marks their transition into adulthood.

For Maasai boys on the cusp of manhood, killing lions was a rite of passage that turned them into warriors. Under the shadow of a snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro, hundreds of Maasai boys brave the ...