Never before have I known an artist in such a rich Luo cultural mix. The very first time I reviewed her part in the fashionable ONE Luo...

Tongue twister: Orao-orao- luor-oliel; Oliel- Oliel-luor-orao. But today we will deal with Adoyo's rhymes and reason poem: An osekawa...

ONE LUO project is anchored around one Engineer Javan McAjudo, the musically everything of this project. I met Javan some time in 2020....

Mar ni kweyo wiya (Your love cooled my mind) Mar ni yido jok koma (Your love pulls outs all my demons) Erawani Erawani (Our love, our...

I believe in the spirituality of music. I believe that every composition has been there before in some corner of the earth some time in...

Iyee Iyee Iyee Iyee Iyee My baby Mara ni Mara ni Mara ni yomo cwinya Your love your love your love makes me happy. Mara ni Mara ni Mara...

Wek lok ma iwaco ni ibimara, obed adaa. (let the promise you made to me to love me, be true) Wek lok ma iwaco ni ibigwoka, obed adaa....

Eddah Achieng Ayon, long legged petite beauty is exactly why the widescreen tv screen was invented. In the not-so-distant past she is the...

While still under the tutelage of the legendry rhythmist Dechaud Mwamba with the great African Jazz of Grand Kalle, Nico and Tabu ley,...

AND WE ARE JUST GETTING WARMED UP TO THIS CULTURAL PRACTICE Luo funerals bring people together. And like the founding president Jomo...

TRIBUTE TO PROF MAGOHA: THE LAST LUNNA KIDDI I remember this conversation about a soul singer with some female colleagues. I was...

THE RISE AND THE RISE AND STILL THE RISE OF "LEP YUACH" Lately it is like I am writing memoirs of my mother. But so be it, I went missing...

The perfect graphic description of this soul is unfortunately in a scoff by a Brazilian world cup winning coach fondly nicknamed Big...

YESTERYEARS LUO CHRISTMAS SEASON I was born in the 1950s and my early childhood covered much of 1960 and 1970. The Christmas I grew up...

It is the football world cup season. So let us begin from football. And in matters world cup football Brazil comes first. Why? Because...

I have a sweet tooth. One of the memories of my mother, Awino NyaBoro Bade Dongo is her observing me putting three spoonful of sugar in...

There was a reputation that used to precede ladies from Ugenya in the not so distant past. That Ugenya women are wife material because...

Benga Musician Owino Misiani sang, Nyakack un lang’o (the people of Nyakach you are martial). But he did not say Nyakach you are the only...

THE STAR WHO FOUGHT FOR THE LIKES OF KIAMBUSTA, MESSIAH ONDETO, JOHANNA OWALO AND APOSTLE ALPHAYO ODONGO MANGO The whispers of a lone...

Just another true story from Ugenya with Love I met this former INGO expert at communal work place cafe. And one day when taking tea, he...

There is a very pedestrian social media attempt at redirecting the community towards wealth creation with the mantra of “Buy Onagi; Build...

MARGARET NYADANDE 1935-2021 There is this chapter in the bible where a disciple faces the grilling from Jesus Christ the son of God in...

A RESOUNDING 'YES' A QUALIFIED 'MAYBE' AN ADAMANT 'NO' The passing on of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has raised a furore of debate as...

In the five elections where Sakwa man Raila has lost, it is self-evident that he has been edged out of routine win just for failing to...

STRATEGIC THINKING OF ANCIENT RIVER/ LAKE NILOTES Yesterday, a regular reader of my blog wanted to know in Luo genealogy if we are...

Just when you think he is down and out; When people of little faith start to run away and spite him; When his enemies think it is safe to...

Little is told of spying network by ladies of Ugenya into the Kingdom of Mumia of Wanga. Its Mumia who lent his name to the town of...

When I was seventeen years of age I flirted with thoughts of joining the US Armed forces so that I can sail all over the world as a...

Culture is very powerful and at full throttle will destroy any resistance in its path. At its friendly best, culture will easily...

DICTIONARY OF DHOLUO LYRICS High riding Ohangla artist Odongo Swagg gives some rap about Chwade ginyundo on a building site. As he...

“Don’t call me a single woman or single mother? Don’t call me a widow? Don’t call me a divorcee. Such names are not culturally available...

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What happened here? How could such a word go missing in dholuo? Muma maler uses a word that means to suck. Much later I bumped into a...

The Luo woman has never been thoroughly examined on the issue of male genital circumcision. I mean her role. And her role should be...

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About a month ago I tried to share with my daughter a picture of a heap of snakes in a ritual and what it means in Luo culture. She asked...

As the cinders increase the glow of fire slows down. Someone stokes the log to rekindle the intensity. The folklorist notices some of the...

Workplace Diversity is an interesting subject. I received a practical illustration of what diversity is when I applied for a job just...

Forget about Odongo Swagg’s salacious dance hall craze chant of Igoyo gi Nyundo. Young Odongo is jathum. And jathum is jadhum so we...

Lupita Nyong’o the Kenyan Hollywood actress and model and star of blockbusters 12 Years A Slave and Black Panther may never take part in...

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Celebrity tv man Trevor Ombija’s choice of vernacular tv station shocked many Luos, liberalised and conservative who felt they knew the...

When the colonialists arrived in Eastern Africa, they were surprised to find a vibrant strong willed but very civil and governable...

I don’t think you can term the meteoric rise of Homa Bay School as an abuse of power by the late Minster Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya but...

This is not like Rumba God Franco Luambo Makiadi’s 12600 letters from all over the world castigating family jealousy. This is the story...

Sem in dholuo means to bad mouth or to malign someone or something. Even if it is the truth, still to say it in a very inappropriate...

Ohh Masikini Ohh Poor me, Mimi nina balaa sana I have so much misfortune Nitafanya nini oo, ulimwengu huu What am to do in this life time...

1. HEZEKIAH OYUGI OGANGO- Public Administrator, Public Services management; DC, PC, Permanent Secretary: The high flying descendant of...