Many things occur in the world which you can not explain unless you know the background of the issues. One of such things is people occupations. Kojani people in Pemba are always fishermen to the extent some one may call all fisherman Kojanis. Some body from Kenya when he sees tyres seller, he thinks about Kambas. In Zanzibar when we see a Maasai we presume he is a watchman. May be events of cattle bandits have made Maasai always ready to fight. But traditional life of Maasai also has given them another specialty: selling beads and traditional medicine. The woman in the picture was selling women decorations and traditional medicine at Kariakoo in Dar es Salaam. Maasai women from their relatively dry regions in Northern Tanzania have no other occupation to do outside their territory accept this because they are not prepared to do anything outside thier houses. Decoration and madicine are their born with talents and that is their business.
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