The Maasai Football League in Amboseli is transforming young Maasai morans’ attitudes, reducing lion hunting, and promoting wildlife conservation while fostering local sporting talent.

A competitor throws a traditional club called a rungu at the Maasai Olympics in Kenya on Dec 14 2024 PHOTO Jeremy Goss/Big LIfe Foundation A warrior competes in the Maasai standing high jump during ...

In the Maasai tradition, becoming a warrior once meant hunting and killing a full-grown male lion—alone. No weapons beyond a spear. No help. No second chances. Lionesses were sacred and off-limits.

Young Kenyan warriors are no longer pursuing lions to show off their hunting prowess and bravery, they are competing for cash prizes in javelin throwing at the Maasai Olympics instead. “We have ...

When Ole Bernt Froshaug came to Kenya in 1995, after resigning from his position at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he produced and directed a wide range of documentary films on topics ranging from ...

Many years ago, young Maasai moranspoured their strength, pride and bravado into hunting lions — a centuries-oldrite of passage that defined courage. Today, the same energy is beingchannelled into ...

big cat photos that capture the raw power, lethal hunting skills and brutal intensity of the world’s most formidable feline ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). “Simba!” The urgent whisper — ‘lion’ in Swahili — comes from Julius Naurori as he stands bolt upright in the back of our 4WD like a ...