Resistant Peoples: the Case of the Pastoral Maasai of East Africa

Kenya and Tanzania are two countries where Christianity has been in general well received. Within the context of general benevolence toward the new religion, the Christian missions nevertheless have not been able to take foothold among the different sections of Maasai people who live there. In the course of the past two years, it has become more apparent that the Maasai are no longer as capable in the past of keeping themselves from the pressure exercised by the States of which they have beco…