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Masai told to leave historic homeland by end of the year so it can become a hunting reserve for the Dubai royal family Tanzania has been accused of reneging on its promise to 40,000 Masai pastoralists by going ahead with plans to evict them and turn their ancestral land into a reserve for the royal family of Dubai to hunt big game.Activists celebrated last year when the government said it had backed down over a proposed 1,500 sq km “wildlife corridor” bordering the Serengeti national park that would serve a commercial hunting and safari company based in the United Arab...

Colette Armand believes she was hit by a coup de foudre when she first saw her future husband. 'The attraction was instant,' she says. Meitkini's tribe have no possessions and no running water, and their food is either plucked from the ground or killed with a spear. Nonetheless, after a courtship of three years, Colette, 24, is preparing to abandon all the comforts of her western lifestyle to join her life permanently with his - even though, to date, she hasn't shared so much as a kiss with her 23-year-old fiance, as Masai rules forbid physical contact between men and...

Kenya: Maasais, Canaanites And the Inca Connection 5 June 2007 Posted to the web 5 June 2007 Philip Ochieng Nairobi WHY IS ENKAI, THE Creator god of the Maasai, almost the same as Enki, who created the Sumerians, as well as Enoch, the Canaanite hero who stormed heaven, and Inca, the divine chief of the ancient Andeans? Is it accidental that if you reverse the syllables of those names - a word-game which ancient societies played all the time - you get Ka'in of the Sumerians, Kainan of the Canaanites, Cain of Genesis and Chanes of Mesoamerica? Thus, although Genesis...

<p>Please call the U.S. State Department (Bureau of African Affairs, Chief of Bureau Walter H. Kansteiner 202-647-7371) and tell him not to sell the 14 Masai cows. Let me explain.</p> <p>Earlier this week the New York Times reported that a tiny village of Masai tribesmen, located in the remoteness of the Uganda/Tanzania/Kenya border areas, had only recently heard of the terrorist attack of September 11. At first they couldn't understand how people could die jumping from a building (they live in huts a man cannot even stand up in).</p>

<p>The ('Thanks for the Cows') site belongs to Rob Kent a Tuscon Arizona computer programmer who has worked in Kenya.</p> <p>Kent plans to get the messages translated and then find someone who can take and read them to the Masai who donated the cows.</p>

Thanks for the CattleThis site is inspired by Press accounts about the Masai village in southern Kenya who donate 14 head of cattle to the US in sorrow over the 9/11 attacks.This is a place where you can say 'thanks' to the villagers who made the donation.I don't have any elite connections in Kenya, but I did spend half a year there studying, and so I know more about the 'harambee' spirit and I'm reasonably sure I can get a note to some folks in the 'mara out sooner or later.I'm willing to pay the postage sending this if it...