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The Maasai
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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 and became
subjected to various pastoral development failures and predicaments, which
have forced them to change their traditional livestock management strategies
to suit the prevailing situations for survival...
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Education
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Formal
education in the Maasai-Community is not yet popular as
a necessity of life. The actual statistics show that about 90% of the
people are illiterate...
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Poverty
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HIV/Aids
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Tanzania
has not being spared by the HIV/AIDS/STD epidemic. The country has been
highly affected by the epidemic since the first cases were reported in 1983.
An estimate at national level suggests HIV prevalence of about 10%. Several
studies conducted in the country have provided evidence of devastating
effect of HIV/AIDS in the country...
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Water
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Maasai Steppe is
an arid area, which is deficient in water supplies because of the warm to
hot and dry climates. The only semi permanent streams in the area are found
in the high rainfall forests of Ngorongoro highlands. Considering the
limited existing surface water sources, the Maasai Steppe water demand has
to be supplemented by supplies from Sub-surveys sources, mainly boreholes
ranging from shallow to medium depths...
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FGM
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Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is the traditional
practice of initiating girls into womanhood. FGM among the Maasai is as high
as 99%. FGM is one of the most strongly held tribal customs revered by both
men and women among the Maasai people...
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Human
Rights/Civil Education
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Good Governance entails governing by listening to the
views of the majority of the people. This means on one hand that people are
able to elect and remove representatives. On the other hand it means that
marginalized groups of a country like the Maasai will get the chance of
articulating their problems and speak up for their rights.
The Constitution can only be of value if people feel they
own it and if other branches of government are fair and open to all
citizens...
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Cultural Citizenship
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Gender Issues
- Pastoral woman hold formal
mechanisms of power therefore development policies, programms and projects
should involve them because they have little access to technical and
financial inputs, Men often rarely passed extension information they have
gained from training their wives...
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