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By Paul Spencer

Samburu society is a gerontocracy during which strength rests with the older males; males lower than thirty won't marry or in a different way assert their own independence. This nomadic tribe from the arid areas of northern Kenya dangle to their conventional lifestyle regardless of the quick switch all through Africa. the writer spent greater than years in the course of the 1960's among the Samburu, and as an followed member of 1 of their clans, he perceived how their values and attitudes are heavily interwoven with a social approach that resists change.

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