Modern ethnicities Diaspora Performing arts Government agencies Television Radio Newspapers The Samburu are a Nilotic people of north-central Kenya.

The power of elders is linked to the belief in their curse, underpinning their monopoly over arranging marriages and taking on further wives.

This is at the expense of unmarried younger men, whose development up to the age of thirty is in a state of social suspension, prolonging their adolescent status.

Members of the moran age grade (i.e. "warriors") typically wear their hair in long braids, which they shave off when they become elders.

[8] Traditionally, Samburu relied almost solely on their herds, although trade with their agricultural neighbors and use of wild foods were also important.

Oral and documentary evidence suggests that small stock were significant to the diet and economy at least from the eighteenth century forward.

In the twenty-first century, cattle and small stock continue to be essential to the Samburu economy and social system.

Today Samburu rely increasingly on purchased agricultural products— with money acquired mainly from livestock sales— and most commonly maize meal is made into a porridge.

Girls who have not yet undergone female circumcision are at risk of being raped as part of a practice referred to as "beading", and are not allowed to have children.

Faced with misfortune and following some show of disrespect towards an older man, the victim should approach his senior and offer reparation in return for his blessing.

[citation needed] Samburu have been widely portrayed in popular culture, ranging from Hollywood movies, major television commercials, and mainstream journalism.

One of the earlier film appearances by Samburu was in the 1953 John Ford classic Mogambo, in which they served as background for stars such as Clark Gable, Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner.

Samburu extras were used to portray members of the closely related, but better known, Maasai ethnic group as in the film The Ghost and the Darkness, starring Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer.

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