Stephen Osieyo
Eddah Ayon- The Star in a Cultural Mix
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...
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Stephen Osieyo
Jul 127 min read
ADOYO- The cultured ONE LUO star
Tongue twister: Orao-orao- luor-oliel; Oliel- Oliel-luor-orao. But today we will deal with Adoyo's rhymes and reason poem: An osekawa...
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Stephen Osieyo
Jul 915 min read
McAJUDO-Impossibly gifted
ONE LUO project is anchored around one Engineer Javan McAjudo, the musically everything of this project. I met Javan some time in 2020....
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Stephen Osieyo
Jul 75 min read
AKISA -Luo Bargaining bloc
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...
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Stephen Osieyo
Jul 59 min read
VICKY B MATATA-Backstage
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...
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Stephen Osieyo
Jun 308 min read
STEVE JAY OMAR-WHY LUOS DANCE
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...
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Stephen Osieyo
Jun 246 min read
CAROL FLOWER- The Curse of a woman's tears.
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....
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Stephen Osieyo
Jun 209 min read
EDDAH ACHIENG AYON- the One Luo star
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...
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Stephen Osieyo
Mar 25, 20236 min read
LOKASSA RHYTHM: THE CULTURED GUITAR
While still under the tutelage of the legendry rhythmist Dechaud Mwamba with the great African Jazz of Grand Kalle, Nico and Tabu ley,...
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Stephen Osieyo
Mar 8, 202311 min read
1,000 YEARS OF CULTURAL FARE EATING
AND WE ARE JUST GETTING WARMED UP TO THIS CULTURAL PRACTICE Luo funerals bring people together. And like the founding president Jomo...
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Stephen Osieyo
Feb 10, 202312 min read
OCHIENG’ KABASELLEH: THE LUO ST VALENTINE
TRIBUTE TO PROF MAGOHA: THE LAST LUNNA KIDDI I remember this conversation about a soul singer with some female colleagues. I was...
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Stephen Osieyo
Jan 21, 202310 min read
LUO SIDE CHIC: THE XYZ OF "LEP YUACH"
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...
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Stephen Osieyo
Jan 2, 202310 min read
PELE: hono (Incomparable)
The perfect graphic description of this soul is unfortunately in a scoff by a Brazilian world cup winning coach fondly nicknamed Big...
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Stephen Osieyo
Dec 24, 202210 min read
NAMLOLWE CHRISTMAS RUSH
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...
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Stephen Osieyo
Dec 17, 20227 min read
TSHALA MUANA: IT'S MURDER ON THE DANCE FLOOR
It is the football world cup season. So let us begin from football. And in matters world cup football Brazil comes first. Why? Because...
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Stephen Osieyo
Dec 4, 20229 min read
HOW LUO CULTURE MANAGED CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT
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...
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Stephen Osieyo
Nov 10, 20223 min read
FROM UGENYA WITH LOVE IV
There was a reputation that used to precede ladies from Ugenya in the not so distant past. That Ugenya women are wife material because...
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Stephen Osieyo
Oct 30, 20223 min read
FROM UGENYA WITH LOVE III
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...
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Stephen Osieyo
Oct 15, 202210 min read
VERCKYS KIAMANGWANA MATETA
THE STAR WHO FOUGHT FOR THE LIKES OF KIAMBUSTA, MESSIAH ONDETO, JOHANNA OWALO AND APOSTLE ALPHAYO ODONGO MANGO The whispers of a lone...
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Stephen Osieyo
Oct 11, 20221 min read
FROM UGENYA WITH LOVE II
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...
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Stephen Osieyo
Oct 6, 202210 min read
OJWANG’ HATARI: A DANGER TO LUO FAMILY UNIT
There is a very pedestrian social media attempt at redirecting the community towards wealth creation with the mantra of “Buy Onagi; Build...
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Stephen Osieyo
Sep 24, 20225 min read
NYADANDE: The last authentic Waya and Migogo
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...
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Stephen Osieyo
Sep 17, 20229 min read
SHOULD LUOS CELEBRATE THE QUEEN?
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...
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Stephen Osieyo
Sep 10, 202214 min read
THE WONDERMENT OF BEING A CLEAN "LUO LOSER"
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...
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Stephen Osieyo
Sep 6, 20223 min read
HOW THE LAKE BASIN WAS WON
STRATEGIC THINKING OF ANCIENT RIVER/ LAKE NILOTES Yesterday, a regular reader of my blog wanted to know in Luo genealogy if we are...
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Stephen Osieyo
Sep 2, 20221 min read
BAABAAAA!
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...
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Stephen Osieyo
Aug 29, 20222 min read
FROM UGENYA WITH LOVE I
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...
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Stephen Osieyo
Jul 24, 20227 min read
THE PRE-REQUISITE LUO INTERNSHIP: PIDI
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...
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Stephen Osieyo
Jul 2, 202219 min read
THE UNORTHODOX NYOMBO (LUO WEDDING).
Culture is very powerful and at full throttle will destroy any resistance in its path. At its friendly best, culture will easily...
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Stephen Osieyo
Jun 17, 20229 min read
ANATOMY OF DHOLUO LYRICS
DICTIONARY OF DHOLUO LYRICS High riding Ohangla artist Odongo Swagg gives some rap about Chwade ginyundo on a building site. As he...
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Stephen Osieyo
Jun 3, 20227 min read
THE NEW LUO BACHELORETTES
“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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Stephen Osieyo
Apr 24, 20221 min read
WHO IS WHO IN KANYAMKAGO
READ ALSO: LUO EXODUS
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Stephen Osieyo
Apr 10, 20225 min read
KISSING: CONSPICOUSLY ABSENT IN DHOLUO
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...
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Stephen Osieyo
Apr 2, 20229 min read
THE RELUCTANT ENFORCER OF CIRCUMCISION
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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Stephen Osieyo
Mar 13, 20221 min read
WHO IS WHO IN KOCHIA
ALSO READ: LUO EXODUS, LUO GENESIS
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Stephen Osieyo
Mar 6, 20227 min read
THE UNIVERSALITY OF LUO SNAKE ORGY
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...
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Stephen Osieyo
Feb 6, 202212 min read
DHO-KENDO FOLKLORE: THE HIDDEN CURRICULUM
As the cinders increase the glow of fire slows down. Someone stokes the log to rekindle the intensity. The folklorist notices some of the...
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Stephen Osieyo
Jan 23, 20229 min read
FLIRTING: THE SERENDIPITY OF LUO CUSTOMS
Workplace Diversity is an interesting subject. I received a practical illustration of what diversity is when I applied for a job just...
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Stephen Osieyo
Jan 9, 20228 min read
HYPERGAMOUS: THE ANATOMY OF ODONGO SWAGG MUSIC
Forget about Odongo Swagg’s salacious dance hall craze chant of Igoyo gi Nyundo. Young Odongo is jathum. And jathum is jadhum so we...
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Stephen Osieyo
Dec 30, 202115 min read
WHEN NOTORIETY IS MISTAKEN FOR FAME
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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Stephen Osieyo
Dec 17, 20211 min read
WHO IS WHO IN SUNA-GIRANGO
9. Caroline Ocharo: Law enforcement; READ ALSO: LUO EXODUS LUO GENESIS OKWANYO: WHAT MANNER OF MAN
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Stephen Osieyo
Dec 4, 20218 min read
FACES OF LUO LIBERALISM
Celebrity tv man Trevor Ombija’s choice of vernacular tv station shocked many Luos, liberalised and conservative who felt they knew the...
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Stephen Osieyo
Nov 21, 20217 min read
THE MISUNDERSTOOD PHASE, PLACE AND FACE OF "UNRULY" LUOS.
When the colonialists arrived in Eastern Africa, they were surprised to find a vibrant strong willed but very civil and governable...
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Stephen Osieyo
Nov 6, 20217 min read
OTIENO KAJWANG: WHAT MANNER OF MAN
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...
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Stephen Osieyo
Oct 23, 20214 min read
12600 DHOLUO LETTERS
This is not like Rumba God Franco Luambo Makiadi’s 12600 letters from all over the world castigating family jealousy. This is the story...
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Stephen Osieyo
Oct 17, 20217 min read
JA-SEM: The Good King Bad.
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...
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Stephen Osieyo
Oct 9, 202110 min read
SIMBA WANYIKA: AFRICA WITHOUT BORDERS
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...
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Stephen Osieyo
Oct 1, 20212 min read
WHO IS WHO IN KAMAGAMBO
1. HEZEKIAH OYUGI OGANGO- Public Administrator, Public Services management; DC, PC, Permanent Secretary: The high flying descendant of...
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