Abstract:
Kenyan Maasai is a pastoral society that lives in arid and semi-arid lands
across the Kenya — Tanzania border. The society has a barracks-like
institution called the Murran system where male youths are formally trained
in preparation for community life. The study was conducted among the
Maasai of Narok District, Kenya. Being a qualitative study, its data was
collected through respondent interviews and examination of primary and
secondary documentary sources. The study found that the Indigenous
Knowledge of the Maasai Murran system has comprehensive and diversified
community-focused attributes that have profound effects on schoolattendance by male Maasai youths of Narok District. The attributes of
Indigenous Knowledge learned during Maasai Murran system make male
Maasai youths who had already enrolled in school to drop out and those who
had never enrolled to shun school for good.
