(MENAFN- The Conversation) Maasai warriors wearing red and women wearing beads have come to be seen as symbols of 'traditional' Africa. These colourful glass beads and red blankets play an important ...

Safaribead's Lisa Barratt on her work with Maasai women Sitting underneath a spreading acacia tree in Nairobi, a group of Maasai women are threading beads to create multi-coloured, intricate patterns.

Did you know in the Maasai community beads have different meanings based on colour? There is a likelihood that you could be wearing the wrong colour in public. Among the Maasai, Samburu, Turkana and ...

Washington, DC — The Leakey Collection attracting considerable attention in the United States these days does not consist of fossils or other items typically associated with the famed Kenyan family of ...

Kenya has created a unit that will market beads in foreign capitals in the quest to sell unique breast plates, earrings and bracelets to US and European consumers. The Tourism ministry has established ...

Maasai elders may seem an improbable choice to navigate a spaceship, but for digital artist Jacque Njeri, the semi-nomadic nature of the tribe makes members the perfect candidates for space ...

At dawn in a village in Kenya's Maasai Mara wilderness, zebras rouse themselves and head away from the huts where they like ...

Sitting underneath a spreading acacia tree in Nairobi, a group of Maasai women are threading beads to create multi-coloured, intricate patterns. The women make traditional beaded breast plates, ...