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    Stories from Maasai Land
    Stories from Maasai Land
    Stories from Maasai Land
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    Stories from Maasai Land

    By David Ole Munke

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    .....The Koskos people once again called the Maasai elders to them and said “Go get us a guard full of fleas and bring it here immediately! That is the only way you will save your skins! for if you do not your fate is sealed.” The elders immediately departed and went home dejected. “Where on earth can we ever hope to get enough fleas to fill a whole guard?" They loudly lamented between them, "This is surely an impossible condition to meet!”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Ole Munke
    Release dateDec 18, 2017
    ISBN9781370846979
    Stories from Maasai Land
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    David Ole Munke

    A dynamic and prolific writer, David Ole Munke is a Lecturer in Maasai Mara University in Narok County Kenya. He has seven published e-books viz Stories from Maasai land, The Maasai Language: An introduction, Beautiful burdens, The Test of Courage, Dangerous Encounter, Undefeatable Courage and Sunset in the Savannah. An avid writer on Maasai culture and traditions, he was born and bred in a typical Maasai family and had an eventful childhood living a simple life deep in the Maasai hinterland. He grew up attending school and in his spare time tending his father’s livestock in the Savannah living through many of the experiences he recounts in his books. David has over ten years experience working with a non-profit organization in management serving rural Maasai communities. Ole Munke now lives with his family in Narok county home of the world famous Maasai Mara game reserve.

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      Stories from Maasai Land - David Ole Munke

      To my father Samuel Munke Ole Mpaayei (Ole Nkite’ng Keri) a firm, caring and compassionate father. To me you will always be the greatest dad that ever lived.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter One: The Giant Warrior from Kunyele

      Chapter Two: The Hunter Becomes the Hunted

      Chapter Three: The Mysterious Hole in the Plain

      Chapter Four: Malaso and the Monster

      Chapter Five: Tuta Goes Missing in Battle

      Chapter Six: Lenkume the Notorious Outlaw

      Chapter Seven: Can the Feathery Give Birth to The Hairy?

      Chapter One: The Giant Warrior From Kunyele

      The Maasai lived in the Loita plains herding their large herds of Livestock and enjoyed living in a beautiful land. The big plains had abundant pasture for their animals and the water streams had crystal clean water sufficient for both human and livestock consumption.

      When it became hot in the plains the livestock moved to shelter in the shade of the big trees near the forests as the wind blew a soft breeze from the hills. Both the people and the livestock were very happy as they could get all that they needed.

      The nearby Naimina enkiyo forest provided wild berries for people to eat and rare medicinal tree herbs which their expert medicine men used to treat different types of ailments.

      The children enjoyed collecting sweet wild fruits in the forest which they looked for as they played together. They would share and eat together all that they got which made them very happy.

      Dead tree branches in the forest provided firewood that the women collected and used to light fires in their houses. They would cook food for their families and warm their houses at night with fire that they made from the fire wood to keep their children warm. The countryside looked beautiful as man and beast lived happily together in harmony.

      There was however one big problem, for just across the ridges in Kunyele lived a big giant warrior. This monster terrorized the people around the villages and the community lived in perpetual fear of him.

      Mutarin the giant warrior lived alone in a big cave on top of a hill in Kunyele. He had curved out a home for himself in a cave building it as a fortress that was impenetrable. He pulled huge rocks round it that nobody could climb over or roll away.

      He only left a narrow opening on the side exposed that he used to get in and out of this fortress. He secured it with a huge stone boulder that nobody could move as he slept at night or when he travelled out by day.

      Mutarin had a long white spear with a shining blade. His shield was wide and tall to reach the roof of an ordinary house. He had made the shield with tough buffalo skin that could not be penetrated by ordinary spears.

      His sword was the height of a standing man and he used it to devastating effect on anybody who came his way to threaten him or tried to prevent him from getting whatever he wanted.

      Mutarin was not afraid of wild animals and he would never run away from an disturbed buffalo that approached him. He would kill the animal with just a single stab of his spear and the buffalo would go down first on its knees rolling on the ground dead.

      Every day, Mutarin would leave his abode early in the morning on a journey to distance lands to go and rob people of their livestock. He will then bring back later the loot to his cave in Kunyele coming back with different types of livestock from his escapades’. He would bind them with ropes tethering them next to his cave to slaughter the animals one at a time as he chose to satisfy his massive appetite.

      There was nobody in all the land that could dare go near him or challenge him to a fight. Mutarin would destroy anybody who would dare stand up to him with one slash of his huge sword or a single stab of his great spear. Even when the warriors attempted a joint onslaught, they still could not manage to kill him as he would either fight them back ferociously or flee from them and come back later and separately kill them one by one.

      The people watched helplessly as Mutarin did as he pleased taking away their livestock at will. Despite their many misgivings,

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