A competitor throws a traditional club called a rungu at the Maasai Olympics in Kenya on Dec 14 2024 PHOTO Jeremy Goss/Big LIfe Foundation A warrior competes in the Maasai standing high jump during ...

The Maasai Football League in Amboseli is transforming young Maasai morans’ attitudes, reducing lion hunting, and promoting wildlife conservation while fostering local sporting talent.

Kenyan David Rudisha is a 2012 and 2016 Olympic champion in the mid-distance 800 meter running event. He is also the first and only person to ever run under 1:41 for the event. His records and awards ...

To many observers, East Africa’s Maasai pastoralists hunt lions for two distinct reasons: to retaliate against lions that kill livestock or to engage in a cultural rite of passage. But that binary ...

Conventional wisdom holds that East Africa's Maasai pastoralists hunt lions for two distinct reasons: to retaliate against lions that kill livestock or to engage in a cultural rite of passage. But ...

At the foot of snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya’s Maasai warriors compete for honor and prestige by running, jumping and throwing. The Maasai Olympics were created by famed Maasai runner David ...

Maasai elders in Tanzania. Credit: Roger de la Harpe/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. In the videos, the sound of gunfire can be heard as groups of about 100 or more Maasai, ...

Some East African Maasai pastoralists may be hunting lions as a form of political protest, according to a new study. Conventional wisdom holds that East Africa's Maasai pastoralists hunt lions for two ...