Maasai

RVW Wealth LLC Empowers Connectivity in Kenya's Maasai Mara Region with Starlink Satellite Internet Project Funding

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Thursday, October 5, 2023

The Maasai Mara, renowned for its breathtaking landscapes and rich cultural heritage, has historically faced challenges in connectivity due to its remote location.

Key Points: 
  • The Maasai Mara, renowned for its breathtaking landscapes and rich cultural heritage, has historically faced challenges in connectivity due to its remote location.
  • The partnership between RVW Wealth and the Maa Trust seeks to revolutionize the lives of residents in this region by unlocking the potential of the internet.
  • Through this initiative, RVW Wealth will fund the installation of Starlink satellite internet terminals, ensuring high-speed internet access across various community hubs, schools, and healthcare facilities.
  • By supporting the Maa Trust's efforts in bringing the internet to the Maasai Mara, RVW Wealth is contributing to a brighter future for the region.

Kindness has persisted in a competitive world – cultural evolution can explain why

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Monday, September 25, 2023

We stood around it for a moment, a bit awkwardly, until someone suggested putting it on a nearby bench.

Key Points: 
  • We stood around it for a moment, a bit awkwardly, until someone suggested putting it on a nearby bench.
  • This relates to a classic question in studies of human generosity: do we behave more selfishly when we aren’t being observed?
  • The debate rages on, across the psychological and biological sciences, as well as in popular culture, about whether kindness can exist in a competitive world.
  • There’s an evolutionary beauty to the teachings of religions, which are the products of thousands of years of cultural change and refinement.
  • Religious and cultural practices around the world offer similar guidance, helping humans to act in ways that benefit each other, rather than themselves and their families alone.

Cultural evolution

    • Cultural evolution — the spread and change of information that isn’t encoded in our genes — helps to explain the ubiquity and complexity of these systems.
    • Cultural changes are far faster than biology, allowing intelligent species like humans to develop behavioural adaptations for managing complex social environments.
    • For example, biological evolution, including a reduction in testosterone, has helped humans be more cooperative, but cultural changes have accelerated this process.
    • Evolutionary thinking illustrates that purpose clearly: cultural evolution helped us to conquer our selfish beginnings.

Maasai entrepreneur named as a finalist for the Young Inventors Prize by the European Patent Office

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Friday, June 23, 2023

Many lions are killed to stop them from eating livestock, a crucial concern for the Kenyan Maasai.

Key Points: 
  • Many lions are killed to stop them from eating livestock, a crucial concern for the Kenyan Maasai.
  • Turere has been named as one of three finalists for the second edition of the Young Inventors Prize, which recognises innovators aged 30 or under who have developed technological solutions to help reach the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
  • Many animals of the Nairobi National Park seek shelter in communal lands to escape predators, leading lions to these human-inhabited areas.
  • He highlights that "the human-wildlife conflict is still a significant challenge … as many communities still cannot afford Lion Lights.

Maasai entrepreneur named as a finalist for the Young Inventors Prize by the European Patent Office

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Friday, June 23, 2023

Many lions are killed to stop them from eating livestock, a crucial concern for the Kenyan Maasai.

Key Points: 
  • Many lions are killed to stop them from eating livestock, a crucial concern for the Kenyan Maasai.
  • Richard Turere developed a system to ward off lions from livestock using light sequences.
  • Turere has been named as one of three finalists for the second edition of the Young Inventors Prize, which recognises innovators aged 30 or under who have developed technological solutions to help reach the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
  • Many animals of the Nairobi National Park seek shelter in communal lands to escape predators, leading lions to these human-inhabited areas.

Kenya at 60: how the British used street names to show colonial power

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Thursday, June 1, 2023

Place names, along with other urban symbols, were used as a tool of control over space in many African countries during the colonial period.

Key Points: 
  • Place names, along with other urban symbols, were used as a tool of control over space in many African countries during the colonial period.
  • This strategy was epitomised by the British, who applied it in Nairobi and other parts of Kenya from the late 1800s.
  • Spatially, colonial street names dominated the central part of the city, while African names were used mainly in the peripheral residential neighbourhoods.
  • In early colonial Nairobi, the population was composed mainly of three groups: British, Asians and indigenous Africans.

1. Street numbering of railway depot and campsite

    • However, it soon became a permanent settlement, with the construction of the railway station and residential quarters for railway officers, subordinate workers and Indian labourers (who resided in Coolie Landhies).
    • In the 1899 Uganda Railway Plan for Staff Quarters obtained from the Nairobi Railway Museum, the only roads in with actual names were Station and Workshop roads.
    • The street numbering pointed to the functionality of the railway campsite.

2. A claim to city pioneership

    • The top colonial administrator in Kenya was known as a commissioner which was later replaced by the title governor.
    • The first British administrator was Arthur Henry Hardinge, between 1895 and 1900.
    • Streets named after other “pioneers” included Sadler (now Koinange Street), Elliot (now Wabera Street) and Hardinge (now Kimathi Street).
    • Africans were relegated to mere manual labour and temporary residence in the city.

3. Street names to honour the British political order

    • Later, a street was named Connaught Road in their honour.
    • This led to renaming of many streets after royals, for example Princess Elizabeth Way, Victoria Street, Kingsway and Queensway in Nairobi.
    • Laragh Larsen, a geographer, highlights the linkage between royal power, political and economic power in the “re-placing” of urban symbols.

4. Place names to recreate a ‘British home’

    • A major impetus of the colonial officials for naming places in Nairobi was to create a home away from home.
    • Some of those names have endured on the urban landscape of Nairobi: Hurlingham, Lavington, Riverside, Spring Valley, Westlands, Parklands and Highridge, among others.

Conclusion


    If there’s anything Kenya could learn, it is that a naming landscape should showcase unity in diversity. Streets should honour not just the political elite, but other personalities and events that make up society.

"Maasai Fashion Takes Center Stage in Humanculture and Paul Kadjo's Collection 'Inside Out; The Rebirth of an Untold Story'

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023

"We are honored to be working with Paul Kadjo to create a fashion collection that is sustainable and elevated," said Stephanie Zabriskie, founder of Humanculture.

Key Points: 
  • "We are honored to be working with Paul Kadjo to create a fashion collection that is sustainable and elevated," said Stephanie Zabriskie, founder of Humanculture.
  • "This collaboration will be sourced in Africa, furthering this new age of fashion that is both luxurious and socially responsible.
  • Our 'Inside Out' collection will showcase the beauty of Maasai culture while supporting the local community through proceeds from the collection."
  • The fashion collection will be unveiled in early 2024, accompanied by several art exhibitions in the United States and internationally.

Waterless Beauty Advocates - by Olive Tree People - from Successful Retail Distribution Now to Direct Sales in the U.S.

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Wednesday, January 11, 2023

In North America, for the first time, Olive Tree People, with up to 30,000 + Waterless Beauty Advocates and its own Olive Tree People Flag Ship Stores, will bring the people into contact with the globally unique Waterless Technology and Philosophy from Tree to Beauty.

Key Points: 
  • In North America, for the first time, Olive Tree People, with up to 30,000 + Waterless Beauty Advocates and its own Olive Tree People Flag Ship Stores, will bring the people into contact with the globally unique Waterless Technology and Philosophy from Tree to Beauty.
  • Olive Tree People Founder Thomas Lommel commented, "Our mission is to heal the world with the power of our mountain olive trees.
  • For this, we take over large lands with wildly growing mountain olive trees, cultivate and eco-certify them.
  • This wonderful cycle we call it at Olive Tree People - from Tree to Beauty.

Give Energy, Give Power: Can NFTs Be Utilized for Accelerating Crowd-grid Systems?

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Friday, June 10, 2022

The total amount of energy consumed by all humans in a year is 410 quintillion Joules.

Key Points: 
  • The total amount of energy consumed by all humans in a year is 410 quintillion Joules.
  • How prepared is the world to receive and utilize this quantity of energy?
  • Crypto mining, and NFTs, appear to be the solution.
  • NFTs enable issues that are underfunded or even disregarded to be handled collaboratively and with incentives.

Nairobi, The New Milan

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Tuesday, November 5, 2019

The company recruited skilled tailors who reside in Kibera and provides fair-wage jobs.

Key Points: 
  • The company recruited skilled tailors who reside in Kibera and provides fair-wage jobs.
  • The bags are crafted with a minimalist exterior and a wild Afro-funk Maasai warrior mask pattern interior.
  • MOT represents a new frontier in business based on love for all and responsible commerce.
  • For more information about the Ministry of Tomorrow, please contact:

Adorama Underscores The Importance Of Clean Water For World Water Day 2019

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Friday, March 22, 2019

Last year, Adorama sponsored 8 water tanks as part of the "A Walk in Her Shoes" collaboration with Ubuntu Life .

Key Points: 
  • Last year, Adorama sponsored 8 water tanks as part of the "A Walk in Her Shoes" collaboration with Ubuntu Life .
  • This collaboration focused on empowering Ubuntu Life's Maasai Maker Mums who walk an average of 5 miles per day to gather water for their families.
  • The Adorama collaboration helped kickstart a water program for our Maasai Maker Mums that will continue to grow the Ubuntu Life mission."
  • Adorama is more than a camera store it's one of the world's largest photography, video, audio and computer retailers.