During these three interrelated rites of passage, a group or age-set of Maasai boys pass together from being children to being morans (warriors), then adults and then elders. Enkipaata is a ...

It was once a rite of passage for warriors to kill lions to prove their bravery, but now the Maasai community works to protect them. Empaps (Meshack) Sayialel, Maasai The Maasai have a long ...

Like many Maasai girls, Ntaiya’s future was mapped by cultural tradition: marital engagement at age five, followed by a circumcision as a teen, a painful rite of passage that would mark the end ...

“The film is a story about the rite of passage. Set within Kenya's Maasai homeland, an intimate and contemporary story of ...