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Maasai
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Maasai: see Masai Masai or Maasai , a largely nomadic pastoral people of E Africa, chiefly in Kenya and Tanzania. Cattle and sheep form the basis of the economy that they have maintained in resistance to cultural change.
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Masai

 or Maasai

Nomadic herders of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. They speak a language (usually called Maa) of the Nilo-Saharan family. Numbering some 900,000, the Masai subsist almost entirely on the meat, blood, and milk of their cattle herds. A kraal, consisting of a large circular thornbush fence around a ring of mud-dung houses, holds four to eight families and their herds. Polygamy is common among older men. All men are grouped into age sets. Young men traditionally live in isolation in the bush for varying lengths of time in order to develop strength, courage, and endurance. See also Nilot.
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Inspired by the way the Masai people of Kenya walk, and the fact that they have practically no knowledge of shoes--or of back or joint problems--Masai Barefoot Technology (MBT) enables the body to stand and walk in the way nature intended.
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How is it that the Masai peoples in Africa subsist on meat, blood and milk and are healthier than most vegetarians?
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The Rift Valley was the traditional home of the Kalenjin and Masai people, when British colonialists seized large tracts of land for farming.
Talks delayed after Kenyan MP shot dead by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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