It is the women’s responsability to build houses and to keep family and home, while men are in charge of boma and family security and boys of herding livestock. The Maasai Boma is the village surrounded by a fence made of acacia thorns to prevent wildlife from attacking cattle. They live in circular houses –Inkajijik- (in Maasai language), made of boughs cemented with mud, cow dung, and loaf-shaped. They speak Maa language, an east nilotic language and are also educated in swahili and english. The cattle is the primary source of income for the Maasai. Livestock such as cattle, sheep, goats are central to the livelihood of the Maasai people and represents their main wealth. They have resisted in being imposed a more sedentary way of life.
On their migratory way South, they have been regarded for their strength and their high warrior performances. The Maasai are pastoralists and semi-nomadic people. Maasai people have nilotic origin, and they migrated South in the fifteenth century, from the Nile Valley in Egypt and Soudan to reach in the seventeenth century Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania where they live now. In the process of splitting the African plate in two new separate plates, the Great Rift Valley in East Africa has been a great source of discoveries in human evolution : particularly evident at the site of Olduvai Gorge East of the Serengeti Plains and Laetoli, with the discoveries by the archeologists Leakey of some of the earliest remains of fossil hominids in 1959 and later. It is a huge fault formed in the earth’s crust and dotted with both active and extinct volcanoes. It is a geological feature stretching from Syria inthe north andspreading southward in EastAfrica from Ethiopia, through Kenya and Tanzania to Mozambique. Lake Natron area is a dry and above all an hauntingly beautiful area ! Be sure to plan some days in this magnificent zone and your stay will be an outstanding experience.
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