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How Maasai lost their ancestral land to British in 1904

Maasai morans with their livestock, 1960s. [File, Standard]

Naboth’s vineyard. That is what the bewitching undulating grazing lands straddling Kenya and Tanzania, the home to the Maasai community, have been for over a century.

Today, the cries of an estimated 70,000 herders from this pastoral community echo around East Africa as they are hounded out of their homes in Ngorongoro.

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