Tag: Maasai

Travel

The Maasai of Tanzania: Noble Warriors, Backward Pastoralists, or Simply in the Way?

Who are the Maasai of Tanzania? Their real history, the Ngorongoro and Loliondo evictions, and whether tourist village visits are anything but...

Books

Karen Blixen, Out of Africa: a review of a colonial elegy suspended between nostalgia and disillusionment.

Review of Karen Blixen’s “Out of Africa”: a poetic and unsentimental memoir of colonial Kenya, exploring the complex relationship between Europe and...

Travel

Ngorongoro, the Maasai, Oil and John McEnroe

The government of Tanzania, the eviction of Maasai and the hunting reserve for the Arab sheikhs