The maasai people are mostly found in Kenya and Tanzania while the maradun are found in Zamfara, Stokoto and in Imo State in East of Nigeria Orlu, they are human beings with their own specified traditional lifestyle which seems as their culture and customs from their ancestral origins.
These people exist since, their way of tradition remains intact without change in respective of the western civilization today famiously in all part of the world.
The maasai and maradun are mostly to be seen in different autonomous tribes and communities with distinct cultural heritage in their land, maasai and maradun makes their living in through cattle, sheep, goats cow in Kenya Tanzanian and zamfara, Sokoto were they are found . they are mostly artisans and tourist economically based areas for strangers .
The maasai and manadun people circumcised their children at the age of l4 years and left their youth as warriors to care for their live stock for the period of 8 years before coming back to village marry as man,
They most lived in hut houses, that is made from a bunch of branches, they use cow-dung to stick the branches together both in Kenya and northern Nigerian. Their tribe has been noted of their different types of village caravans and strange object of their origins and hils of nature , maasai people do not till their soil for farming rather for grazing of their live stock, than depend on cultivated farm product for purchase but maradun farm in desert land and scrub land,
The maasai peoples believes that the richer or influential of one traditional society depends on the multitude of his cattle, while the maradun in Zamfara and Sokoto believed the office of the traditional ruler or their chiefs depend on hereditary.
The maasai people mostly warrior at period of grazing time for their livestock, but maradun goes warrior as king coronation with different title hood, people of maradun were mostly on hides as skin of animal, Zamfara but the maasai people wore blanket beaded hairs.
Maasai traditionalist do not kill lion when it attack their cow because of the wildlife organization which stipulated that the head of the cow must be buried in the sand but the people maradun do kill lion as warrior in their own tradition.
The mardun report their cases to their traditional ruler while the maasai report theirs to their council of elders, maasai people ppractise honeymoon while the maradun do not do such but voluntary through the emir practice lesbian in their tradition.
Maasai people feed with milk and blood as protein source but maradun people of zamfara and sokoto feed on milk and other foods for their survival,
Maasia and maradun marry their wives through using cow heads to get their wives, thereby as many wives as many cow head you present to the family . maasia and maradun consult their deities and gods before embarking on any mission both on security politics marriages etc.
The marriage tradition are the same like marrying of many wives and bearer of many children and keeping of livestock, maasai people and maradun owing their birth stage after delivery before they will recognized the person as baby they will expose it to three moon age traditional before taking it as their son,
Meanwhile maasai without culture is as a zebra without stipples, this is still associated with maradun people way of life. Maasai traditional lifestyle of judging issues are patriarchal in nature,
They decide matters on a full body house made of oral law covers with many aspect of their behaviour, they pays in cattle’s to settle matters, they had their own court for peace and reconciliation arena, while maradun people execute tyrant by convicting their people if found guilt of an offence, and settle their cases through their traditional ruler or the emir by their law in the court, palace of their (HRH) emir,
The traditional maasai do not bury their dead ones either left them for scavengers, the only person meant to give burial ceremony was their chiefs, the maradun people custom demand that bury will be giving to every one but not ceremonies unless their chiefs.
Infant, this two comparison are obvious people with different and similar cultures of their way of life valued tradition and culture like people of maradun in Orlu in Imo state as they performed series of traditional life styles.
In coronation of their Chief i.e Igwe and Lolo titles, the throne of Igwe remains primogeniture in nature and legendary this people king remain king until his death after death of Igwe they hand over to next king with historic land mark if the person in hierarchy to became the king is still in political position or appointment should be named awaiting king after his retirement confirmed the igweship.
The day all this traditional rites will be performed the chiefs and villages, traditional priest, Catholic Bishop of Orlu Igwe ‘s royal emergence form his obi was marked with pomp and ceremony like a warrior king his men was stern. A royal staff bear led the way even as his admirers Jostled to catch a glimpse of the young Igwe, Intermittently gunshot kent the air and shouts of Igwe dikikadi were the tumultuous applause from the lips of the people, after the king was ushered in the place court room he will joined by his queen, note that people
of maasai and maradun practice courtroom in common.
But they do not marry or have sex with each at the same way of maradun people, both of this tribe circumcise their children but do not live the same wildlife as found in Kenya, Tanzania and north Nigeria.
Maradun of Orlu Imo State do not live wildlife like other maasai and maradun in Kenya and Tanzania, Northern Nigeria.
People of maradun traditional culture based their sources of living on farming and observe western life but remain intact with their culture and traditional origins presently (HRH) Alhaji Garba Muhammed Tambani FICEN, MFR and maradun chairman first class Emir, are hereditary but the maasai people royal hood bsed on riches of the cattle and children
Maradun people traditional life assume kingship both in north and eastern Nigeria like a successors to throne,, but the people of maasia in Kenya and Tanzania they depend on their leadership stages on l the orignisation of the wildlife law and their council of elders to ascend to throne not in wise reputation like maradun but depend on the large expense of ones cattle, sheep, cow etc, before one could be confirmed chief titles, massai and maradun people has spirit of loyalty and honesty in their common tradition to their chiefs or Emir, that any person confirmed titles must be respected home and outside than tribe by their people as one chosen to represent them.
They are monarchial both the people of maasia and maradun both in politics and other social issues, their security are not exposed to government but are been intervening through their chief or emirs, like the people of maradun in respect of the security of Nigeria in the problem of Boko Haram meance are been consulted through their emir of zuma salisu and the news will be circulated to his people through their custodian of their laws and customs, but the maasai people are hardly communicated but they are people lovely people unless through their council of elders but their culture are complicated to one’s understanding because they live in the desert.
However, people of east Africa has been finding it difficult to live with them because of their distinct life style and traditions,
Maasia people plays their traditiojnal activities in their home maasai house (Enkang)
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