Photos of Oloitokitok, in Maasai country, Kenya

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Oloitokitok, in Maasai country

Oloitokitok (or Loitokitok) is a small town in Kajiado County, about 255 kilometres southeast of Nairobi and on the border with Tanzania with a view of Africa’s highest mountain, the Kilimanjaro.

View to Oloitokitok, and Kilimanjaro
 
Maasai boy
 
Taking cattle back
 
Boy with cattle
 
Boy with goats
 
Maasai boy
 
Maasai moran
 
Milking a cow
 
Maasai boy
 
Cattle in the boma
 
Maasai boys, Oloitokitok
 
Plastering the hut
 
Plastering the hut
 
Maasai huts
 
Watching the goats
 
Watching the goats
 
Playing a game
 
Playing a game
 
Roasting a goat’s head
 
View from the boma
 
Maasai girl
 
Maasai girl
 
Street and shops
 
Makorimo church
 

It is Maasai country, with, near the town, a traditional boma or family homestead. In the early 1970s, this was the place of Ole Partiye. The village was surrounded by a fence of thorny bushes to protect the livestock, brought in for the night, from predators. Cows were milked in the morning; the milk was a favourite drink of the “moran”, Maasai young men.

The Maasai here mainly had a very traditional lifestyle, although some had adopted a non-traditional life and lived in separate houses in the town. But customs and traditions remain very important.