'Revealing the unknown' in Enjoolata

Enjoolata, the cultural centre/museum within Basecamp Maasai Mara grounds.

Leah Silantoi remembers the days when she would sit under an acacia tree and experiment with beading in Naroosura village, Narok county. For a small girl, it may have looked like a hobby, but in her culture, this prepared her for adulthood, a period when she will have to look after her family as a married woman.

"Like girls my age, I would just play with beads while boys looked after cattle," says the mother of three. "There were no TVs in the area, so the lessons we got from beading or those the boys received while herding cattle came in handy later on in life. It may have been a leisure activity but pays off eventually."