young girls

This article is quite disturbing. I read it and it troubled me. It is talking about female circumcision that occurs when girls reach puberty. It is a tradition that has gone on for hundreds of years.

Read at your digression.

This is another article regarding the subject: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5298858


~Ruth

Marginalization of the Maasai in Kenya

This article talks about the tourism increase in Kenya and how the Maasai are affected. They live close to a lot of wildlife attractions. This article touches on the stereotypes of the Maasai as a primitive people and how those stereotypes are reinforced with the jobs they receive at game reserves.

It talks about tourism behavior related to drugs, prostitution, sex, and how the young Maasai are tempted to indulge in this behavior.

~ruth