The exposure of the popular imagination to the Maasai people started with the publication of Joseph Thomson's book Through Masailand back in 1885. It continues along the wellworn tourists tracks today, tracks followed to the Mara and through Amboseli, where the imagination is stimulated by personal impressions. The Maasai entered Kenya from somewhere to the North of Lake Turkana.

Expansion down into Kenya may have been taking place in the first half of this millennium because by the 1600s when… Continue

The Rastafari movement is a monotheistic, Abrahamic, new religious movement that accepts Haile Selassie I, the former, and final, Emperor of Ethiopia, as the incarnation of Jesus Christ, called Jah or Jah Rastafari. Within the Rastafarai movement Haile Selassie was considered the physical body through which the Power of the Trinity exhibits its power here on earth.

Spiritual use of cannabis, rejection of western society (called Babylon, which literally means "confusion"), and various Afrocentri… Continue