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- Herausgeber: Globetrotter Publishing
- Kategorie: Lebensstil
- Sprache: Englisch
Dressed in red shuka cloth, they wander through the savannahs of East Africa with their herds of cattle and pull thorny hedges around their kraals to protect them from lions, which they hunt with spears. However, the image of the proud Maasai people and their young warriors has long since been tarnished by modernity. Overgrazing, AIDS and western lifestyles are taking their toll on the traditions of the Maasai. The author spent weeks in a Maasai village in northern Tanzania and experienced the coexistence of modernity and tradition at first hand. A journey into the heartland of the Maasai, a captivating encounter with their culture and tradition. Illustrated eBook with numerous photos.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
In the Land of Lion Slayers
Kai Althoetmar
In the Land of Lion Slayers
Among the Maasai. A Tanzanian Journey
Imprint:
Title of the book: In the Land of Lion Slayers. Among the Maasai. A Tanzanian Journey.
Year of publication: 2025.
Publisher:
Globetrotter Publishing
Kai Althoetmar
Am Heiden Weyher 2
53902 Bad Muenstereifel
Germany
Althoetmar[at]aol.com
Text: © Kai Althoetmar.
Cover photo: Maasai. Photo: lecucurbitacee, CC BY 2.0.
The research for this book was self-financed and without grants or benefits from third parties.
Regions of Tanzania. Map: Tubs, Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
No-one is sounding the tally-ho, no-one has put on hunting clothes, no pack of dogs is picking up the scent of the game. The strangest hunting party under the African sun creeps silently through the kraal towards the savannah: three young housewives in summer dresses à la ‘Woolworth’ rummage table, armed only with empty grain sacks, a boy of barely ten in shorts and a torn T-shirt, the tracker, about fifty, with his funny top hat and worn dark patchwork jacket, Daniel, the seventeen-year-old high school student, in his Sunday yarn, led by the old hunter with his rifle, a beige safari cap on his head. The three women are to carry the meat on the way back. The only question is from which animal. I'm interested: ‘Daniel, can I come with you?’ Nobody has anything against it. Seven black men and women and one white man set out into the East African savannah, seven because of the drought and the poor maize harvest in northern Tanzania, one out of curiosity. The savannah begins directly in front of the mud huts and stone houses of the two thousand Maasai of Longido and is only intersected by the A 104 national road, which runs northwards from Arusha through Maasai country all the way to Nairobi.
We cross the road, leaving the police station and the general shop on the A 104 motorway behind us. Ahead of us is the dry savannah: waist-high bush grass, umbrella thorn acacias, thorny undergrowth. It is eighty kilometres westwards to Lake Natron, another eighty to the eastern edge of the Serengeti, the ‘infinite plain’, as it is called in the Maasai language, a UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site, which touches Lake Victoria in the west and extends to the Kenyan border in the north. It is grazing grounds for 1,3 million wildebeest, five hundred thousand Thomson's gazelle, two hundred thousand zebra, countless giraffe, elephant, black rhino and cape buffalo, hunting ground for two thousand lion, seven hundred cheetah, an insatiable army of leopard, hyena, wild dog, jackal and other old acquaintances from ‘Brehm's Animal Life’.
