How to pronounce“manyatta”in English
Earlier this year, I traveled three hours south of Nairobi to Kajiado County in Kenya, where I met Lady Kilena, a 65-year-old Maasai pastoralist.
Lady Kilena told me about her first manyatta, a usually circular hut made of grass and cow dung and twigs.
And then she pointed to another steel structure on the compound and said that's what she built with profits from sales of milk.
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Definitions of “manyatta”
A Masai or Samburu settlement or compound, often temporary, established by a family or clan, or as an encampment of young warriors.
“The Masai tribes, or sections of tribes, haunt certain districts. Every section has usually some three favourite districts, in each of which is a village called a manyatta.”