The late former Kasipul-Kabondo MP, Samuel Onyango Ayodo, made history as the first Kenyan from the Luo community to study in America and was one of the four Luos to sit in…
Did you know women braided their hair and hid rice seeds as well as other grains in a style called cornrows? The braiding technique was very popular among the women. During the…
By 1200 AD, over 35 Swahili city states had emerged, and spanned the Eastern coast of Africa, from Somalia, to Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique, and the islands of Comoros. This area was…
Plot otwistnwa e Luo dress kanyo because the sad reality is: there is no Luo dress. We Luos were a nudist society and so the closest we came to a ‘traditional’ dressing…
The Closer Union plan was meant to unite Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika colonies into a single British East African federation. In the spring of 1931, East African delegates were invited to London…
In late 1965, Luo Union Sports Club and Kisumu Hot Stars played at the Nairobi Stadium in a match which is still talked about today with avid enthusiasm. But the content of…
My grandpa is 80+ years old now. The other day I asked him how ‘Rodi Kopany’ came to be. He told me ‘rodi’ in dholuo means crossroad. Many paths crossed at Rodi.…
Kenya’s standard carries with it a rich history. It can be traced directly to the Kenya African Union, founded in 1942 under the name Kenya African Study Union, with Harry Thuku as…
Kenya’s political history cannot be complete and comprehensive without mentioning one of Luo’s political giants and earliest political organizers during British colonial rule. Born in 1894, Daniel Ojijo Oteko died in suspicious…
On December 1st 1955, civil rights activist, Rosa Parks, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger. She got arrested for violating Alabama’s racial segregation laws. However,…