In 1995, before he was President, Obama wrote about moran.

[Boojatta]

At night, after dinner, we spoke further with our Masai guardsmen. Wilson told us that both he and his friend had recently been moran, members of the bachelor class of young warriors who were at the center of the Masai legend. They had each killed a lion to prove their manhood, had participated in numerous cattle raids. But now there were no wars, and even cattle raids had become complicated -- only last year, another friend had been shot by a Kikuyu rancher. Wilson had finally decided that being a moran was a waste of time.