Lyres in East Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Djibouti, Kenya, Sudan, Egypt) are found mostly and Asia, the Arabian Peninsula (Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Jordan, Iraq, Israel). They will accompany the singing during possession rituals, meditations or prayers. They also lend themselves to modern dance music now, around the Suez Canal. The instrument presented was used by the Masai. The Maasai are a pastoralist population and the East African semi-nomadic warriors, living mainly in central and south-western Kenya, northern Tanzania. The Maasai belong to the group of companies and Nilotic emigrated from southern Sudan to the fifteenth century, accompanied by their domestic livestock. The fact that he held a number of zoos East Africa probably contributed to the Maasai people one of the best known to the Western public. The Maasai maintain their cultural traditions while taking participate in economic, social, and political forces contemporary in the region and beyond. In Tanzania, the Maasai people suffer from early 2013 attempted expropriation by the government of President Jakaya Kikwete.