Adumu - Masai jumps - we jump upwards like kangaroos


mas00.jpg     The Maasai are an African nomadic tribe that mainly lived in northern Tanzania and southern Kenya.  

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    Adumu the famous Maasai dance. Men jump as high as they can. This is to attract a potential mate  

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    The Adumu dance is also a ceremony in which boys become men.  

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    Maasai are descended from the Nile valley. They left the Nile valley in the 15th century and came to Kenya and Tanzania where they live to this day  

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    Sometimes even the trained eye of the photographer is not able to predict whether the photo will be good or not. In the case of the Maasai, the matter is more difficult because you never know how high it will jump. And it happens that it jumps out of the frame  

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Maasai outside the frame

 

 

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Photo: Panasonic Lumix, Zanzibar, Paje, April 2021


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