Is a New $3,500-a-Night Safari Camp Blocking a Wildlife Corridor?

Ritz-Carlton’s luxury camp in Kenya’s Maasai Mara offers “front row seats” to the Great Migration. But some Maasai members ...
Charlotte Observer

The continued displacement of the Maasai shows how tourism harms more than it helps, Part I

Google “Maasai” and search under the Images tab. You can either glance at the first few results or scroll for an hour and still come away with a singular image in mind, that of East Africans wearing ...
CNN

Finding the meaning of home in Africa

That’s how you’re greeted at Sanctuary Olonana in the Masai Mara, a remote 583-square-mile national reserve in southeastern Kenya where wildlife and Maasai villagers coexist. “Welcome home.” Thing is, ...
Crux

Faith-based group blasts Tanzania’s treatment of indigenous Maasai people

Maasai women spectators watch the Maasai Olympics in Kimana Sanctuary, southern Kenya Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022. (Credit: Brian Inganga/AP.) Listen YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – A faith-based group composed of ...
Dave Mani on MSN

Kenya’s Hidden Luxury Safari Camp in the Masai Mara

In the heart of the Masai Mara, where the golden plains stretch endlessly and wildlife roams free, lies a safari camp unlike any other. Designed to blend seamlessly with nature, this sanctuary ...
The Forward

Self-Avowed ‘Jewish-American Princess’ Chronicles Quest To Be African Masai Warrior

(Haaretz) — Mindy Budgor spent three months in training with Kenya’s Maasai tribe, fleeing rampaging elephants, drinking fresh, warm goat blood, and learning how to live at the mercy of the elements.
CU Boulder News & Events

‘Wrong number? Let’s chat’ Maasai herders in East Africa use misdials to make connections

CU Boulder research suggests how Maasai in Tanzania use their phones shows us how technology, error and openess can bring diverse people together. Sometimes wrong ...