morani

At the outset, the expedition got off to a shaky start when, only three weeks before her team was due to arrive, Mary discovered that a band of Maasai morani young warriors had burned down her camp huts from the previous summer.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

At the outset, the expedition got off to a shaky start when, only three weeks before her team was due to arrive, Mary discovered that a band of Maasai morani young warriors had burned down her camp huts from the previous summer.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

The herd have to be watched by day, and driven in at the fall of night; that is the task of the boys and the youths who have not gone through with the quadriennial circumcision ceremonies and become El-morani, or warriors.

African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909

For ten or twelve years these young men are El-morani.

African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909

At the age of thirty, or thereabout, the El-morani becomes an Elder.

African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909

Now that the white man has put a stop to the ferocious intertribal wars, the El-morani are out of a job.

African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909

The young women who have been living in the El-morani village are considered quite as desirable as the young virgins.

African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909

And, mind you, unchastity in the form of illicit intercourse outside the manyatta of the El-morani, whether with her own or another tribe, subjects the women to instant death.

African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909