. In the Savannah where the Kilimanjaro culminates, Maasai have been living in harmony with nature for ages and ages. Nowadays, their culture is jeopardized.
As an expression of this culture, their ancestral tales are verbally passed from one generation to the next. Helped by Ruckya and Marc Basseporte, Eric Fayet went to several Maasai villages of Northern Tanzania to collect some of these tales. For them not to fall into oblivion, he decided to gather twenty two of them in a book and asked the Tanzanian painter Heman Msole to illustrate them.

. As the first compendium of Maasai stories ever published in French and in English, Maasai. Legends of Tanzania tells children and grown-ups why the god Engaï gave all the living herd to the Maasai, how a young girl tamed a lion, why a rock in Serengeti was named after a warrior, how another of these warriors killed a demon all alone, why it is important to beware of monsters stealing young girls and to venerate the laibons who know how to tell the future…

. Strange adventures, original myths, social codes and universal questions mingle. Embellished with pictures, the book also leads the reader to discover these people : their rituals, their traditions, their religion, their daily life…
An entertaining and instructive journey. A true expression of deep respect.

Title : Maasaï. Legends of Tanzania

Publisher : Un, Deux… Quatre Editions

Author : Eric Fayet

Illustrations : paintings Herman Msole / drawings Laurent Ruptier

Photographs : Eric Fayet (except when mentionned : Marc Basseporte)

Graphic design : Claire Berbey

Final reading: François Doreau

English translation : Emma Fayet and Xavier Fayet

Number of pages : 224 p.

Format : 24 x 27 cm

Cover : process printing with varnish on rigid cover in cardborad with flyleaves

Inside pages : process printing on semi-matte cover paper 150 g.