The Maasai Football League in Amboseli is transforming young Maasai morans’ attitudes, reducing lion hunting, and promoting wildlife conservation while fostering local sporting talent.
In the Maasai tradition, becoming a warrior once meant hunting and killing a full-grown male lion—alone. No weapons beyond a spear. No help. No second chances. Lionesses were sacred and off-limits.
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 ...
When Ole Bernt Froshaug came to Kenya in 1995, after resigning from his position at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he produced and directed a wide range of documentary films on topics ranging from ...
Many years ago, young Maasai moranspoured their strength, pride and bravado into hunting lions — a centuries-oldrite of passage that defined courage. Today, the same energy is beingchannelled into ...