Masai

Masai The Masai are an East African nomadic tribe of Kenya and Tanzania who speak Maa, an Eastern Nilotic language. The Masai (or Maasai) are nomadic to provide grazing and water for their cattle. Cattle are the center of Masai life, providing their food (milk, blood, and meat), their materials (skin for clothes and dung to seal their houses), and their only recognized form of wealth. Each family marks its cattle with a unique brand …

…drink. The women and girls also keep the boma in good shape. In half a day, a women can make an old boma into a new one. Young girls look forward to the time when their age group becomes eligible for marriage. Their marriages have most likely been prearranged for them. Once a woman gives birth to four healthy children she may become an elder. Despite government efforts to settle them, most are still nomadic.