At dawn in a village in Kenya's Maasai Mara wilderness, zebras rouse themselves and head away from the huts where they like ...

Father Francis Mol was buried in the Netherlands last week. When he sauntered into the lives of the Maasai community in Kenya 62 years ago, Frans Mol may not have known that his work on their culture ...

Identity evolves. Social categories shrink or expand, become stiffer or more elastic, more specific or more abstract. What it means to be white or Black, Indian or American, able-bodied or not shifts ...

CHIMACUM — Nakaji Lukumai stood in her Maasai shuka, a traditional dress that represents her people in northern Tanzania. The eldest of 56 children, she was the first woman in her tribe to go to ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Sometimes wrong numbers work. On the East African savanna, Maasai herders can form important new social connections when they misdial their mobile phones, our new study of these ...