The Maasai are among the best known peoples of Africa, yet their modern history — under German and British Colonial rule and since Tanzanian independence — has been one of exploitation, marginalization and appropriation.
Over the last two years, Mellon Mays Fellow Kisha Bwenge, a senior in International & Area Studies in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and a native of Tanzania, has explored the impact of cultural tourism on Maasai and Hadzabe communities in the northern part of the country.
Read the full story in The Source: Washington People: Kisha Bwenge