Maasai

[mah-sahy, mah-sahy]

noun

plural

Maasais ,

plural

Maasai .

1. Masai.

Example Sentences

NAROK, Kenya—Leaders of the Maasai ethnic group are seeking a court order to demolish a new Ritz-Carlton luxury safari camp they say blocks a key route of the famous Serengeti migration.

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Meitamei Olol Dapash, a Maasai elder with an American Ph.D., says the camp sits astride a path that some migratory wildebeest and zebra use to cross the Sand River in search of green grass.

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Dapash, director of the Maasai Environmental Resource Coalition, has sued Marriott International, which owns the Ritz-Carlton brand, and Kenyan authorities in a local court, a legal strategy backed by some other Maasai leaders.

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The Serengeti migration is among the largest mass movements of mammals in the world, with some two million wildebeest, zebra and other species moving back and forth between the Serengeti plains in Tanzania and the Maasai Mara in Kenya in search of fresh pasture and water.

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The Maasai, traditionally nomadic herders, have ancestral ties to the Maasai Mara, and the Narok County government manages the reserve on their behalf.

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