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Article: Masai feel world closing in
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 23, 1987
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MORIJA, Kenya The remote and luxuriant Loita Hills remain almost
the way the first Masai found them except, perhaps, for the Mother's
Choice bread truck and Joseph Kiperian's broken wristwatch.
These hills, like the tribesmen trying to raise their cattle and
children the way Masai always have, are dissolving into a new Africa.
And the Masai, aloof, alert and fiercely proud, are worried.
"Kenya is running very fast, and we have to keep up," says Moses
Kiperian, killer of six lions and owner of 130 cows, who can outrun
most people in a fair race. "If not, they will force us."
The Loitas are a last redoubt of the 250,000 Kenya Masai who
once held sway over all the land up the Rift ...