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The video of the Masai celebrating the Sanfermines, made by the journalist Borja Lezaun, has gone viral on networks and has come to be practically more celebrated than the

"there is no turning back"

by the mayor of Pamplona,

​​Enrique Maya

, who this Monday put in The countdown is on for

the chupinazo

from the balcony of the town hall after the coronavirus pandemic prevented the two previous editions, 2020 and 2021, from being held. And

Patxi

knows it and suffers from it.

"I am desperate

," says

Patxi

, named Dennis Koikai, a

young Maasai warrior

living in Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve, for not having been able to perform

"the biggest ritual"

in the past two years.

Patxi

is the best representative of the patron saint, San Fermín de Amiens, from the African savannah where he teaches the San Fermin liturgy to his tribe.

In this "jewel" or "wonder", as the video by the Navarrese journalist has been described on networks, which adds thousands of reproductions,

Patxi

does not forget the hallmarks of the Sanfermines: the saint, the route, the songs, the handkerchief Red.


More than 9,500 kilometers from Pamplona, ​​from the vicinity of the border between Kenya and Tanzania, where lions, cheetahs, elephants, zebras and hippos dot the landscape,

Patxi

and his men run through

Mercaderes

, La

Estafeta

and if you hurry, they reach the

section of Telefónica

.

The color red, which in Masai means "dangerous" or "brave", explains the young warrior

,

but for him it is nothing more than "Osasuna" (and with capital letters) because the protagonist of this video goes beyond the Sanfermines and extols the patxarán, the kalimotxo, the txapela, the ball game as part of Navarrese culture, in which Ernest Hemingway is not lacking, a great admirer and enthusiast of the festivals as he narrated in his novel

Fiesta

, with which he internationalized the Sanfermines.

"Pamploneses, Pamplonesas, Long live San Fermín! Gora san Fermin!", sings Dennis Koikai, because

"maybe one day I'll throw the chupinazo"

.

Such is his dream.

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