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Masai Mara (8): Maasai Dances (Women)

May 23, 2010 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

It is interesting to note that with the women’s dancing, there is much more gentleness and fluidity, so once more those preconceptions sneak in and apparently are part of every culture. The women line up and begin singing soft, sort of squeaky tunes (no one the same, I gather) and the cacophony is pretty amazing. …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Kenya - Culture, Kenya - Maasai, Kenya - People

Masai Mara (7): Maasai Dances (Men)

May 23, 2010 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

As we move on into the relations between the men and the women of the manyatta, perhaps this from a recent books I read will help: “As Maasai society is polygamous, an elder can take as many wives as he can afford and father as many children as possible. Conventionally, a Maasai man of the …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Kenya - Culture, Kenya - Maasai, Kenya - People

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