ABSTRACT
According to Ole Ntimama, a prominent Maasai leader who is also a senior politician: The Maasai lost their lands to the colonizers. They were banished from their ancestral lands of the Rift Valley and driven to the malaria and tsetse fly infested southern reserves like the Red Indians of North America. There were no schools, no primary health care services and no infrastructure at all. It was human suffering for over one hundred years. This chapter is guided by the assumption that the marginalization of a community spells double marginalization for that community’s womenfolk. It concludes that the narratives referred to have shown that though marginalized communities are conventionally expected to subject their women to greater marginalization, the Maasai community seems to have risen above this stereotype, giving the women the voice to express their innermost desires and act on them.
