The NGO, non-governmental organization, is here to educate and aid American workers who are planning to go to Africa. Today I’m going to discuss the background of the Masai and the different views that they have. The Masai people in Kenya and Tanzania have extremely different lives than the people here in the United States. They have different beliefs and their culture is not as advanced as ours. The traditional Masai have stuck to the same views and customs passed down from their ancestors. However, the more modernized Masai are educated and have adapted to the same morals as the modern person. Before you travel to Africa, I will help you learn more about them and explain their contrasting perspectives on life. In the Masai tribe, they have a main chief and his name is Joel Sayanka who is in charge of around 20,000 people. He has more modernized views compared to the other people, especially the elders who are opposed to changing traditions. The more modern of the Masai people are dealing with the modern world by setting up …show more content…
For the first time ever, a first generation of young boys were not circumcised in front of their whole tribe and instead circumcised under medical precautions. Unlike the boys, the girls are circumcised by their moms and aunts and it is not done under a cleanly environment. Joel’s daughter, Judith, says that she does not want to be circumcised for the reasons being that it is unhealthy and science states that it would be a huge loss for the women herself. This rose a conflict in between her and cousins because this was out of the ordinary and did not follow Masai tradition. They argued with her for a while but she maintained the same standpoint. Judith is the first to ever reject the “honor” of circumcision because of her modern views. Women of the modern world have the same state of mind when it comes to having control of their own