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2 days ago · The more cattle you have, the more you are respected in the community. But it’s not only for prestige; they keep cattle for their livelihood. They keep them for milk, which is the food they depend on most. The Maasai can drink milk in the morning, in the afternoon, even the evening without eating anything else.
2 days ago · Kenya’s many peoples are well known to outsiders, largely because of the British colonial administration’s openness to study. Anthropologists and other social scientists have documented for generations the lives of the Maasai, Luhya, Luo, Kalenjin, and Kikuyu peoples, to name only some of the groups.
5 days ago · Japanese language, a language isolate (i.e., a language unrelated to any other language) and one of the world’s major languages, with more than 127 million speakers in the early 21st century. It is primarily spoken throughout the Japanese archipelago; there are also some 1.5 million Japanese immigrants and their descendants living abroad ...
- Masayoshi Shibatani
20 hours ago · “Mara” means “spotted” in the local Maasai language because of the short bushy trees which dot the landscape. The Masai Mara is one of the great wildlife conservation and wilderness areas in Africa, with its populations of lion, leopard, cheetah and African bush elephants.
2 days ago · Some of the problems can be traced back to the origins of Nairobi - meaning a "place of cool waters" in the Maasai language - and the fact that it was not considered a suitable place for large numbers of people to live in. It started as a railway depot under the British colonial authorities in the late 1890s.
6 days ago · Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. All oral languages use pitch to express emotional and other para-linguistic information and to convey emphasis, contrast and other such features in what is called intonation, but not all languages use tones to distinguish words or their inflections, analogously to ...
4 days ago · Mayani is a Maasai boy from longido Arusha. He went to boarding school at 6 years old and lost his Maasai language and tradition. Since joining the LEAF program, he has learned to sing Maasai songs, practiced the ‘jump’ tradition and wear Maasai shukas (traditional clothing).
