After living among the Maasai People of Kenya for three years, Anthropologist Angelica Braxton has become fluent in their language and knows their customs to a T. The isolationist Maasai Tribe prefers the Wilderness of Kenya to modern civilization and doesn't trust outsiders. Angelica spent years earning the Maasai People's trust. The six-foot-tall, athletic and curvy, Afro-sporting, brown-skinned and green-eyed young woman, a native of Atlanta, Georgia, has grown fond of them. Angelica, born to an African American father, engineer Jerome Braxton, and a white mother from the Netherlands, schoolteacher Famke Hauer, represents the changing face of American academia, especially in the field of Anthropology.
After graduating from Spelman College with a degree in cultural studies in the summer of 2014, Angelica Braxton went on to earn her Master's degree in Anthropology from Howard University in Washington D.C. Inspired by legendary Black British academic Gus Casely Hayford, whose videos on African history and architecture astounded the world, Angelica Braxton went to Kenya in order to learn everything she could about the Maasai people. The notoriously elusive Maasai People have been profiled by white academics, people who poorly understood them. Angelica wanted to bridge the cultural divide and show the world that academics of color could make successful contact with isolationist Tribes.
The Maasai People's territory ranges from northern, central and southern Kenya and also includes parts of northern Tanzania. The tall, dark-skinned Nilotic Tribe still keep to their ancestral ways, as they have for thousands of years. In eons past, European invaders and Arabian invaders have fought against the Maasai People and they fiercely defended their culture and territory. In the twentieth century, the Maasai People have relaxed in their dealings with outsiders, allowing themselves to be filmed by European and American scientists and cultural Anthropologists. The world is fascinated by the Maasai People, but they're still seen as the Other, as far as Western society is concerned.
"I am a biracial woman who embraces my African roots, I want to show the world that the Maasai People are human and wholesome," Angelica Braxton vowed to herself the day she landed in the City of Nairobi, Kenya. After attending historically black colleges and universities such as Spelman College and Howard University, Angelica is fascinated by black cultures around the world. The young African American woman intends to show the world that black Anthropologists can make a difference. Angelica Braxton intends to surpass her idols, Black British academic Gus Casely Hayford and Jane Goodall. The lady has ambition, that's for sure...
The Village of Namelok has a population of three thousand souls, and it is one of the major settlements of the Maasai Tribe. Angelica Braxton spent years earning their trust, and has grown quite close with Prince Kingasunye, the Leader of the Village of Namelok. The six-foot-seven, lean and athletic, dark-skinned Tribal leader is an imposing man. Looking at the Prince, Angelica remembered thinking that he looked like Hollywood actor Peter Mensah. Prince Kingasunye has three adult daughters by his late wife Lankenua. The Prince is quite close to a young Maasai warrior named Barmasai and it can definitely be said that they live together. Nothing wrong with that.
Growing up in the City of Atlanta, Georgia, where a lot of black folks openly identify as bisexual, lesbian or gay, Angelica Braxton is fairly tolerant and open-minded. Bisexual black men do exist and Angelica is fine with that. Hell, during her Howard University days, Angelica dated a bisexual gentleman named Theodore Morris, a standout on the Howard University football team, and they had a great time together. Of course, after graduation, Theodore went on to play in the NFL and got hitched to the obligatory tall and leggy blonde, Amber something or other. Angelica is fairly certain that Theodore is still banging guys on the side even though he married Amber. Angelica moved on with her life. Howard University and Theodore are in the past. The Maasai People represent Angelica's present and future...
"Sister Angelica, tonight, join Barmasai and I in our tent," Prince Kingasunye said in his deep voice, and Angelica looked at the tall, forty-something Maasai Tribal Leader and smiled. The Prince was so tall and handsome, and he could have any woman or man in the entire village. Angelica fancied the Prince but he was exclusively focused on his male lover Barmasai, and none of the Maasai Tribal women seemed to stir his desires ever since his wife Lankenua died. Angelica bowed her head respectfully, and happily accepted the Prince's offer.
