The World of a Maasai Warrior
Tipilit Ole Saitoti
Tuesday, 08 Apr 1986 at 8:00 pm – Curtiss Auditorium
Tipilit Ole Saitoti told his life story: from his birth into a traditional society in Tanzania in 1949, through his youth, education in a mission school, and initiation as a warrior, to his career as a game park guide and ranger and subject of a National Geographic film "Man of the Serengeti;" to his studies in Munich and Boston and at the University of Michigan where he received an M.S. in natural resources, to his return home, to be received back ritually into his family.
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