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Encyclopedia > Masai

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Masai - definition of Masai in Encyclopedia (650 words)
The Maasai or Masai are an indigenous African tribe of semi-nomadic people located primarily in Kenya and northern Tanzania.
Masai is also the name of a town near Johor Bahru, which is in the southern state of Johore, Malaysia.
Frans Mol, author "Maasai: Language and Culture Dictionary (Diocese of Meru, Kolbe Press Kenya) the spelling for the Maa (The language of the Maasai) word for warrior in the singular would be "ol - murrani" and in the plural would be "il - murran".
MASAI - LoveToKnow Article on MASAI (1174 words)
The Masai were probably isolated in the high niountains or plateaus which lie between the Nile and the Karamojo country.
Meantime the Masai became masters of the greater part of inner East Africa from Ugogo and the Unyamwezi countries on the south and west to Mount Kenya and Galla-land on the north, and eastward to the hundred-mile strip of more or less settled Bantu country on the coast of the Indian Ocean.
The Masai believe in a nature-god as a supreme beingNgai (sky)and his aid is invoked in cases of drought by a ceremonial chant of the children, standing in a circle after sunset, each with a bunch of grass in its hand.
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