In the above quotation, Kariankei planned on Lerionka departure to Arusha to accompany some people. As an individual Kariankei made a choice to
not follow the ways of the modern, he strongly forbid his son to follow the modern ways but not allowing him to go to school. His characteristic proud,
feeling that he is better than anyone is a typical Maasai. A male Maasai role is to protect the people of the society and thus making them have a high status which
makes them proud of their status. When the European came the Maasai thing little of the strange arrival and consider them less important but when they introduce
school to them they rejected the idea.
c. Livingstone
Livingstone has chosen the path of the modern way, he gets educated later becomes a teacher. Then he stop teaching to become an activist, campaigning
for a free state. It is his choice to choose this path, because there he can learn from the outside world. The rise of Individual and freedom is reveal from his
characteristic wise, through his characteristic he choose the modern way that is education.
Though he‟s choice is not being supported by the Maasai society, they laugh at him.„Lerionka, my son‟ his mother said one day when she saw him
watching a chamelion,‟People will say that i gave birth to a fool who , instead of taking an interest in cattle, puts all his mind to insects
‟ p.97. They believed he has been bewitched, others say he has been driven mad
by intensive reading. Even his own mother thinks he has completely lost his mind. She caught him watching a chamelion for hours. She thinks she has given birth to
a fool, who instead of taking an interest in cattle puts his mind on insects. For it is rare to see an educated Maasai warrior.
Livingstone is wise, because he chose the path of education. Though many people thinks he has lost his mind including his mother. The rise of
individual and freedom is that he is free to choose his own path and makes his own choice.
Rise of individualism and freedom appear when the European came, before the Maasai followed the traditional way and they did not question its ways.
When the European introduce school many Maasai reject it because they though that it teaches their children to defy the elders order. It actually teaches the
students to think like the European, according to Peter Berger‟s review Western
Individuality:Liberation and Loneliness states: „Individual are responsible for their own action but only for their own
actions ‟ http:www3.dbu.edumitchellmodernit.htm
According to the above statement that every individual is responsible for his or her actions, just like Livingstone as an individual chose the path of
education therefore he is wise.
4. Self Expression and Identity
The move from traditional societies to modern ones was also supposingly allows people‟s ability to form their identities and express these the way people
want to. So ba sically people‟s identity depend on their birth.
Before colonization people weren‟t about to express themselves because they were bound to strict traditional rule and also weren‟t able to find their own
