In recent times, there have been many strange "marriages" between women from the sophisticated West and Maasai warriors from Africa. This fast-paced blog novel in progress brings you the inside story of one such strange union where the dark past of both the Maasai warrior and the white woman who falls madly in love with him, catches up with them suddenly and ruthlessly in the African bush. Check the posts every day as the story hurtles forward to a shattering and very unexpected climax.
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Masai manyatta
The Masai have always been nomads and this explains the way they build their houses, popularly called Manyattas. They are constructed quickly and in a make-shift way with the walls smeared with cow dung. You can quickly tell that they were never constructed to last. In fact they do not even have a thatched roof and can hardly stand several seasons of rain.
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