The Maasai

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Pedro Carvalho, Portugal

The Masai tribe is a group of semi-nomads who live in Africa. Their language is Maa, which is not very well-known, but many people are now learning English in villages that welcome tourists.

The Masai are easily identifiable. They have long, thin faces and are tall. They also use red as their official color, and their culture has the habit of enlarging their ears with disks, and their women wear many colorful accessories.

In the past, babies' central incisors were extracted in the Masai tribe.

Nowadays, few people still do this, but it is another striking characteristic of the Masai tribe.