Their harshest wrath, however, is against white investors in tourism, whom they hedonistically abuse at will in the name of national consciousness. Their campaign against white investors is camouflaged as love for the Maasai, counter-intuitively propagating negative prejudices about the community. The Maasai have been recipients of patronising love for millennia from foreign philanthropists, churches, and NGOs. Wildlife conservancies evolved in this backdrop, as a natural confluence of ecology and economics. The investors looking out to the Maasai for business partnerships love the Maasai more than the armchair moralists hell-bent on finding faults.

Source: The Star January 07, 2021 01:52 UTC