The Maasai Football League in Amboseli is transforming young Maasai morans’ attitudes, reducing lion hunting, and promoting wildlife conservation while fostering local sporting talent.

In the Maasai tradition, becoming a warrior once meant hunting and killing a full-grown male lion—alone. No weapons beyond a spear. No help. No second chances. Lionesses were sacred and off-limits.

A competitor throws a traditional club called a rungu at the Maasai Olympics in Kenya on Dec 14 2024 PHOTO Jeremy Goss/Big LIfe Foundation A warrior competes in the Maasai standing high jump during ...

Many years ago, young Maasai moranspoured their strength, pride and bravado into hunting lions — a centuries-oldrite of passage that defined courage. Today, the same energy is beingchannelled into ...