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Maasai Culture

By Standard Digital | Oct. 3, 2011
How does your community prepare men and women for family responsibilities and fidelity to their spouses? A small maasai village called matapato, near namanga, has held the latest graduation ceremony for 600 maasai morans where young wives had a chance to test their husbands' fidelity in a ceremnony called no-ngiri. Noah otieno tells the story of these maasai morans and their rite of passage.
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