Siankikin oo Irkisaruni from Il-polei. The crucial moments where you are put to task to select the best part of your culture to be preserved and maintained and drop the retrogressive and oppressive part.

The Maasai culture which has gone through a lot of transformation is gradually giving in to reforms and like everything else, I think it is due time for the conservatives to embrace change and update our culture.

Women like the ones in the picture above are highly educated. Some of them are registered nurses from the Kenyan Medical training colleges but still they choose to play part in keeping the motivating and progressive portion of our collective identity.

Like many of us, the ladies above do not fear to call for change among the Maasai people and they can use themselves as a good example to show the community that change and progressiveness does not equal loosing our collective identity. It does not mean “getting lost”

To me, the ladies above are pretty much Maasai girls just as any other tradition conservative Siankikin (young adult female) out in oltiak

Saidimu Ole Ngais.