The Masai society: conditions of reproducction and transformations.

The Masai population has been able to conserve, against and inspite of the colonial penetration, its own socio-economical relations up to the years immediately after the independence of the two Countries (Kenya and Tanzania) over which extended Masai land. This does not mean there was no impact with colonialism, but rather that it did not manage to break up a pre-existing social structure: the relationship was articulated as one between two powers, of which one dominated, that found a modus vivendi without arriving at a head on collision