00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:07 For us, this mass is very important for us, because this
00:11 is what brings us together.
00:13 It integrates us together.
00:15 We can never meet such a multitude without this
00:18 [INAUDIBLE]
00:20 This is one of the biggest ceremonies we have in our
00:23 lives as a mass.
00:24 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
00:52 We are now graduating to another level, which is
00:56 manhood.
00:57 We are now becoming some men, so responsible men.
01:01 My father can live for me, a home, and I can manage it
01:04 perfectly, because I've graduated from this manhattan.
01:08 [NON-ENGLISH SINGING]
01:38 We teach them, in the whole of that period of monanism, we
01:44 teach them to be responsible future citizens, or future
01:48 members of society.
01:50 They also have to love our culture.
01:52 They have to keep their culture.
01:54 They have to dress the way we address them.
01:57 [NON-ENGLISH SINGING]
02:09 [NON-ENGLISH SINGING]
02:31 That is the greatest fear we have as elders, that in the
02:34 near future, we might not be able to practice this culture,
02:37 because of the subdivision of land, and the laws of the land
02:41 that does not have any respect for the Maasai culture,
02:45 apart from the dressing that everybody's embracing, but
02:48 they are not protecting for us.
02:49 [NON-ENGLISH SINGING]
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