Word: masaai
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...fellow rapper Abdalla (aka Ziggy)—hail from Tanzania, an ocean away from the flashy champagne parties and East-West beefs that characterize American hip hop.Their hometown is Arusha, a small city in northern Tazania. It lies in the center of the land occupied by the Masaai people—traditionally, nomadic cattle herders.The three rappers, along with Gsann and Nelly’s younger siblings and traditional Masaai singer Yamat (aka Merenge), use their Swahili hip hop to encourage Tanzanian children and adolescents to reject the nation’s dominant youth culture, in which violence...
...bazaar topped off a week of Cultural Survival events centered on the topic of the Masaai people of Eastern Africa. They held film nights, lectures and a business dinner in order to highlight the concerns of the Maasai, said Cultural Survival Director Ian S. McIntosh...
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