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The Masai are definitely the "African tribe" everyone (in the UK at least) pictures first when someone uses those words, even more so than the Zulu I would say.Re the Masaii in popular imagination, I do remember them coming up in reprints of Willard Price's [BLANK] Adventure books as a strange but noble tribe of warriors you had to respect (cow blood came up) or another Mau Mau Rebellion could start. So years after they got shuffled away, they seemed to hold some imaginations before the end of empire.
Gary, is the way you've spelled it here considered the 'correct' transliteration nowadays? I know a lot of renderings have been changed since the imperial period but I don't recall seeing it that way before.
Re the Masaii in popular imagination, I do remember them coming up in reprints of Willard Price's [BLANK] Adventure books as a strange but noble tribe of warriors you had to respect (cow blood came up) or another Mau Mau Rebellion could start.
is the way you've spelled it here considered the 'correct' transliteration nowadays?
Wikipedia seems to have it correct. Maasai is how the Visit Kenya website spells it (https://www.visitkenya.com/the-people/) and below is a quotation from a site dedicated to them (https://maasai.com/conservation/maasai/):I found it transliterated in like 30 different ways in different books, so I just copped out and used what Wikipedia uses.
You always do well to dispel monolithic understandings of Africa in these articles, be it African cultures or colonial governance.
Gary, I don't often comment on these articles because my knowledge of the subject is woefully lacking, but since I'm replying here anyway: thanks for this series - it's a fascinating look at the impact over decades (centuries?) of decisions made by people in Africa (both natives and colonisers) and people elsewhere.
Not sure if you plan on doing another on Kenya/East Africa, but reading this one I found myself thinking how post-World War One British control of modern Tanzania might impact things here.
I mean yeah, look at Rwanda.Cheers, lads. Appreciate it.
I hadn't planned to go back to this, but the effects of the post 1918 border changes on the ground is fascinating and could easily be an article.