Kenya’s Maasai Beyond Cliches
Editor’s note: To paraphrase the world’s most interesting man, “It’s not every day I travel to Africa to reduce the people to essentialised scenery for my white-person-in-Africa story. But when I do, I choose to essentialise the Maasai.”
Whether it’s Robin Wiszowaty, Mindy Budgor more recently, or whoever the hell pays to go to ‘Maasai warrior camp’, it’s starting to feel like the Maasai are the flavour of the times for mal-educated Westerners seeking to live out their colonial fantasies.
Anton Crone went to find out what an honest account of Maasai life might actually look like.