Article: Where Have All the Cultures Gone?
“The Maasai are settling, the rangelands are being parcelled and fenced, the big game animals are shrinking away into conservancies and deep forests, and new languages—Swahili and English—are swiftly gaining advantage against the Kimaasai tongue. Schools, migration and rising populations are all vectors of this transformation. It is difficult entirely to escape the fear that one has arrived just in time to see dusk over the Maasailand and night over the Maasai.”
My article for the Australian magazine Quillette on the disappearance of local cultures and lifestyles, the decline of linguistic diversity and the attempts to stop