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The Maasai shepherds’ village: a land of contrasts!

WORLDWIDE | Thursday, 3 November 2011 | Views [673]

The road of the Maasai’s herd! For the Maasai shepherds the road of the cattle is the pathway for discovering the outside world. In this road they travel through miles in search for food, water, life. It is that permanent search that makes them discoverers, conquerors, traits that they proudly exhibit!

A sun made out of water!

Kenya. Water. Is it the end of the Maasai cattle’s journey or the place where it all begins? Here, water replaces the sun becoming the source of life, connecting earth and sky as one. The dust witnesses the lack of the precious liquid but it is also the proof of an insurmountable will to achieve a goal – to survive! The Maasai shepherd has fulfilled his wish; he managed, this time, to keep the herd alive.

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Fences in the Maasai World!

For the Maasai women the fences that surround the cattle also indicate the edge of their own world. These fences protect the cattle from predators during the night but it is also the borderline of a smaller world, made out of day to day routines and worries, one that is well known to these women. Above, the sky is limitless.

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