Among 38 barefoot Daasanach tribe members from northern Kenya (19 men, 19 women), 72 percent landed on their rearfoot when running barefoot at a self-selected, comfortable pace. The GWU team did ...

The Daasanach are a people group with 70,000 in number and most of them have never heard the gospel. With the lack of available, affordable education, many are illiterate.

The water was shallow, the odds of reptiles low, but Nyemeto, a traditional healer of the Daasanach tribe, had come with a patient, and it would be very bad luck—spiritually and otherwise—for ...

Both groups are traditionally pastoral nomads living within the Elemi Triangle—a once disputed area between Kenya, Sudan, and Ethiopia—which has dry pastureland, historically used by both the Turkana ...

It takes months of painstakingly collecting bottle tops and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches and bits of silvery mesh but for the Daasanach people of Ethiopia's Omo Valley ...

Kevin Hatala, a doctoral student in anthropology at GWU, expected his group’s study of the Daasanach people of northern Kenya to jibe with Harvard researcher’s Daniel Lieberman’s conclusions ...

A biocultural conflict exists between the Daasanach community’s coming-of-age ceremony and carnivore conservation, but the young community members are calling for a change to sustainability, a new GCC ...

Kevin Hatala, a doctoral student in anthropology at GWU, expected his group’s study of the Daasanach people of northern Kenya to jibe with Harvard researcher’s Daniel Lieberman’s conclusions ...

[Francis Kariuki, Standard] Not a drop of rain for three years in Illeret North Horr Sub-county, and when the rain finally came it poured to the joy of the Daasanach community. Contrary to what ...

La idea de fondo es que los daasanach conviertan su región en zona de turismo para la observación de aves y ellos mismos hagan de guías, lo que repercutirá en una mejora de sus vidas y del ...