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xausa
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Theodore Roosevelt's 1909 trip to Africa
#226577 - 08/03/13 04:43 AM

I happened to stumble on this footage from the Library of Congress. The "Zulus" shown are of course Maasai. Nevertheless, pretty remarkable footage. Can you imagine the Secret Service allowing a horde of spear carrying dancers that close to an ex-President today?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ_QeeHHEZw

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Re: Theodore Roosevelt's 1909 trip to Africa [Re: xausa]
#226602 - 08/03/13 09:36 AM

Maasai or Samburu?

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Re: Theodore Roosevelt's 1909 trip to Africa [Re: kamilaroi]
#226603 - 08/03/13 09:52 AM

I don't think Teddy was far enough north to be around the Samburu ??? Isn't that up NFD area ???
Maasi and Samburu are both Nilotic, but not overly toleratant of each other I gather.

Obviously not Zulu, they where a bit south...:):):)....but in the old days of USA reporting, everything in Africa was "Zulu" or "Ubangi"

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Re: Theodore Roosevelt's 1909 trip to Africa [Re: Caprivi]
#226620 - 08/03/13 05:44 PM

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I don't think Teddy was far enough north to be around the Samburu ??? Isn't that up NFD area ???
Maasi and Samburu are both Nilotic, but not overly toleratant of each other I gather.

The Samburu were just North of Mt Kenya, and to the West. Maasai in the South and in Northern Tanzania.

NFD was in the far North.

Roosevelt certainly would have travelled through Samburu areas.

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Re: Theodore Roosevelt's 1909 trip to Africa [Re: kamilaroi]
#226632 - 08/03/13 11:38 PM

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article on "Roosevelt in Africa":

Roosevelt in Africa is a film by Cherry Kearton, released in 1910. It is a documentary featuring Theodore Roosevelt in Africa. It is shot in silent black and white.

One of the biggest headline-grabbing stories of 1910 was former president Theodore Roosevelt's safari into Africa. Landing in Mombasa in 1909, Roosevelt spent months in the wilds of East Africa, hunting big game in parts of what are now Kenya and Uganda.

For some of this journey, he was accompanied by famed British bird-and-animal photographer Cherry Kearton, who shot wildlife and native scenes with a hand-cranked motion picture camera. Among the scenes captured by Kearton's camera were a number of Kikuyu and Maasai gatherings and dances – although the Maasai were incorrectly identified in the film's slates as "Zulus."

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