Maasai men and women increasingly move to Nairobi and other towns, seeking work, education, or escape from rural hardship. Many become security guards, a profession that values their reputation for courage and discipline. Others pursue education, business, or wage labor. Urban Maasai navigate multiple identities: traditionalist at home, modern in the city. They send money back to rural families, return for ceremonies, and maintain ties to the land. Urbanization is not assimilation. It is adaptation, another way of being Maasai in a changing Kenya.