Women Are Important

Yet this is not to say that Maasai women are not important. Like in many African communities, the quietness of women does not mean a lack of power. To start with Maasai ladies are real beauties. With their long necks adorned with large round, stiff necklaces that flaot up and down proudly as they dance and sing, (mostly doing the latter) in the Maasai dance of great huge leaps into the air.