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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.
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