Massai Olympics by Jesse Dale

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/05/africa/gallery/maasai-olympics/index.html?hpt=wo_t2

In Africa, a group a people known as the Massai are renowned lion hunters. Lion hunting is so important to them, it is even a rite of passage from boyhood to manhood. You have to be very athletic and skilled to be a good lion hunter, but these skills are being brought to competitions, like running and jumping. Winners of these events are given medals, just like in the Olympics.The winners are then brought to different events around the globe to compete there and get their names known.

I think what these people are doing is a very very good thing to do, culturally and economically. They are bringing themselves closer to one another with harmless sports rather than risking lives with each other over a lion. This not only will help their culture survive, but let it survive even longer with more people alive. This also can help them economically because athletes who go around the world to compete will get their name of the Massai people known and when people start recognizing it, they will start coming to their village. This will help them become industrialized and bring them into the modern era of the rest of the world, which is exactly what places like this in Africa need.