1971/01/01 by Kenneth King, Kenneth J. King
Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #African history and culture analysis #Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology #Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
paper · doi:10.1017/s0021853700000104
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This article is concerned to show some of the dimensions of political activity amongst the Kenya Maasai in the first half of this century. Primarily, the focus is not on the ‘traditional’ Maasai, but on the small but not insignificant educated group who, despite the restrictions of the Maasai Reserve, participated in the growth of Kenya's modern African politics. Certain crucial events in East Africa—the circumcision crisis, independency in church and school, and the search for higher education—are shown to have important Maasai counterparts. At the same time, some of the stubbornest administrative and missionary problems presented in the development of Maasailand are examined within a historical perspective, and with the aid of Maasai oral materials where possible.