Masai \Masai\ prop. n. 1. A Nilotic language. [WordNet 1.5]
2. An African tribe inhabiting parts of Kenya and Tanzania. [PJC]
Note: Picture of Masai women and children standing by the roadside. (Photographed in Kenya 1983 by PJC) [PJC]
'Whatever happens to me,' writes Claudia to the Masai in her last, unbearable message, 'I wish that you may have many cattle and plentiful green grass.
She watched as poachers, Masai warriors, injury, disease and tourists interfered. Some survived.
Among the gifts for the pope was a stuffed lion brought to the edge of the altar on the back of a pickup truck by a Masai Moran, or warrior, dressed in the tribe's traditional toga-like robe of red and blue.
To the Masai tribe living on the fringe of this wildlife haven, Kenya's economics of development are upside down.
For starters, the Masai say they could use help with an irrigation system and an electric fence to keep the elephants and water buffalo out of their crops.
The Masai of Amboseli believe they know a way to resolve the dilemma.
Medical bills alone ran to Dollars 1,500. The warrior recovered; now he is a herder. A Masai lion-hunt must be a sight-and-a-half.