Eti Dayan was born in Israel.

She holds a master's degree in African Studies and leads tour groups in Africa.

Twenty years ago she moved to a tiny Maasai village in the outskirt of Maasai-Mara NR, Kenya.

Dayan is the founder of Nanetya Foundation (www.nanetya-foundation.org)

which strives to collect the folk tales of small ethnic groups in their mother tongues.

Her next project is establishing a museum dedicated to the bead art of East African ethnic groups.