Tepilit Ole Saitoti's Initiation Of A Maasai Warrior

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In “Initiation of a Maasai Warrior” by Tepilit Ole Saitoti, we see how they are better known as “nomadic pastoral people of East Africa”(164). In the Maasai culture they believed that they had the better side of both women and men themselves, when they amongst each other can have their own practice, where they can have two wives. In this culture two wives is something that is practiced when they are initiated into the Maasai culture. By the time that their kids are fifteen years of age they must be initiated into a warrior of their own land. However while they are initiated into the culture, they must first go through pain at an older age, getting circumcised then later getting married. Every boy must get circumcised to get initiated and if

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