For Kenya’s Massai warriors, ritual is key. An adolescent rite of passage used to be pretty standard: Spend three months in the forest, learn how to herd cows, kill a predator. “Some years back, for ...
When the Maasai tribal chief said he'd give 20 cows for me to be his seventh wife, my travel companions and I were jovially shocked. His first wife was not shocked — it was her idea. I told the chief ...