- THE MAASAI
The Maasai Steppe in Brief
Maasai Steppe covers a wide geographical area of Arusha & Manyara Regions with a total area of about 82,000 square kilometers and some small parts of four neighboring regions of Kilimanjaro, Tanga, Dodoma, and Morogoro. In Arusha and Manyara Regions alone, Maasai Steppe covers an area of about 68,920 sq. kilometers in 4 districts namely Monduli, Simanjiro, Kiteto, and Ngorongoro. It also includes a small part of Arumeru and Hai districts, which are in Arusha and Kilimanjaro regions.
(see Simanjiro on the map... )
The Maasai Present Social Organization System
The Maasai
constitutes one of the largest pastoral
groups in East Africa, who for many centuries have greatly depended on
livestock production as their main source of livelihood. Surprisingly
overtime these people have experienced various
pastoral development failures and predicaments, which have forced them to
change their traditional livestock management strategies to suit the
prevailing situations for survival. This has for example compelled them to
change overtime from traditional nomadic pastoral strategies to more partial
sedentary practices.
To read more about Afya Bora´s research on Maasai topics, please follow these links:
2. Unity and Cooperation among the MAA
3. The Maasai traditional livestock management strategies
4. Future Expectiations and Intentions