DHOLUO DICTIONARY , PhD
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For the Singles wishing to marry Luo girls. listen carefully. Paying Dowry( Nyombo rules). Announce the day of your visit and prepare yourself well ( Cash wise). Change lots of 50bob notes ( finje) and stash like 1000 worth in several envelopes.
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Wakenya wameingia kwa live ya ICC wanapiga nduru huko. Aki Zakayo atajionea mengi msimu huu
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If your dad drove one of this, you have sibling you don't know about.
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Nkrumah's reaction after learning that he has been overthrown. His plane was still flying over China when he was deposed in a CIA-backed coup. As a result, he knew nothing about it. At the Beijing Airport, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai stood in the cold wind,
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You can’t be worth more than 400m and a beneficiary of Linda Mama at the same time. Pick your struggles!
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The gentleman has served the Odingas well. This was in 1994 during the funeral service of Oginga Odinga at Uhuru Park. To date he still remains Baba's most loyal bodyguard .
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OGINGA TO Raila Odinga IN 1992.‘’ I named you after my Mother , a good woman, remember three things and hold them , 1- Do not kill for power. I your Father I’m going to the grave empty handed because I refused to kill for power, if you have to kill in order to get power, refuse
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Until the year 2004, Wakili Danston Omari was a teacher at Muthurwa Secondary School before he eventually resigned to pursue a course in law . A BA Education graduate from Kenyatta University (1990) , Omari started studying law at UoN at the age of 40 (2004) and graduated in 2008
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I think this is the highest our flag has ever been raised. RIP Cheruiyot.
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BURIAL OF A 'COMRADE' IN THE VILLAGE. When University students come to your village to bury one of their own, everyone they find in that village is a fool who knows nothing at all, including the parents of the dead student. They don't have names. Their names are comrades. So
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We need this kind of leaders with an amazing thinking thanks Gen Z
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Have you ever seen this guy of unsound mind along Kimathi street Nairobi?.He is Professor Erichi, a former lecturer at UON. He is from Bungoma County . Hands of Anyuola
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~Ngug'i wa Thiong'o writes .Raila had refused to eat.He was on hunger strike. He grew thin and pale.His right palm had gone dark,the arm had pimples and boils as well. His left arm was twisted already. He was receiving extraordinary punishment. He stood for his words.
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Thika Road done by Jimi Wanjigi at Ksh 30 Billion is still impactful until now, unlike ghost projects by Ruto's 1 Trillion debts 😭.#StopAdani
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JANUARY 2009. Dr. Miguna Miguna refusing a handshake from Total Man Nicholas Biwot and telling him to his face " I can't allow my knuckles to adjoin a filthy and criminogenic one associated with the brutal murder of a fellow Luo"
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HOW DR. ROBERT OUKO BEGGED FOR HIS DEAR LIFE. On the morning of February 12, 1990, Dr. Ouko told his wife Christabel to travel to Nairobi by road and that he would join her by air the next day.
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Jaramogi Oginga Odinga with his daughter Doctor Wenwa Akinyi the first kenyan woman to get a Ph.D in Chemistry.
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The late Willis Ayieko made sure he had a safe place to call home; majestic!
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Amkeni, Nakhumicha MUST GO.Amkeni, Nakhumicha MUST GO .Amkeni, Nakhumicha MUST GO .Amkeni, Nakhumicha MUST GO .Amkeni, Nakhumicha MUST GO .Amkeni, Nakhumicha MUST GO .Amkeni, Nakhumicha MUST GO .Amkeni, Nakhumicha MUST GO .Amkeni, Nakhumicha MUST GO .Amkeni, Nakhumicha MUST GO.
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Small girl with a big God 😂😂
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Cabinet ministers meet in Gatundu moments after the assassination of Mboya.
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Luo idioms:. •Dee Nyuok ~ Be Patient.•Go gi chung ~ Ignore.•Ng'ado Guok ~ Come to a Compromise.•Cham Nyanji ~ Eat your Ego.•Makna Guok ~ Escort me.•Bul Ngor ~ Relax.•Achiedh Nade ~ Disaster/Doom.•Piny Obaya gi Bad Ogwal ~ Failure.•Iye Otuch ~ Glutton.
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Veronica Apiyo Ochoro from Tie Roya village in Seme, Kisumu County was the first lady to buy a mirror in 1924. Women would travel from as far as Ujwang'a in Sihay to go and see themselves. She charged only a chicken for you to see yourself.
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Police in Kisumu shot and killed a Rang'ala Girls High School student Jacinta Achieng as they pursued a matatu that failed to stop at a roadblock and pay the Ksh 100 bribe in Jua Kali area of Kisumu. Two other people are nursing gunshot injuries at Aga Khan hospital.
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Mboya in Accra Ghana after being elected chairman of All African People’s Conference in 1958. He was just 28.
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Io Ujinga ambia omosh one hour na Nuru Okanga. Apana leta mchanganyika.
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Omosh One Hour emotionally reacts to the expected dialogue
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Tom Odhiambo Mboya speaks during the Africa Independence day celebrations held in New York's famed Carnegie Hall in April 1959. As he strode on to the stage dressed in an African costume,and bearing in a raised hand a fly whisk.
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Yesterday, I went in Kondele, talking with young people. They stated you have amazing, forward-thinking ideas that can propel us ahead. They admire your uncommon intelligence and bravery. They kindly encourage you to come share with them at any time that is convenient for you.
Our resolve to work with HE william Ruto was not a gimmick! We will support the president and we must support the president! When the president loose we all loose! Ruto is Kenya 1! .God bless the president and may we work together for our country! Always pray for the president!
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Hassan was arrested in Kisumu during the Tuesday demos upto now we still don't know his whereabouts .#FreeHassan
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Raila Amollo Odinga weds Ida Anyango Oyoo on 1st September 1973, they met at the university of Nairobi, He was a lecturer, she was a student.
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THE LUO PEOPLE OF ETHIOPIA .An ethnic Luo woman from the Anyuak tribe of the larger Luo family from Gambella regional state, Ethiopia. The Anyuak Luos are one of the many ethnic groups of Ethiopia
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HEZEKIAH OYUGI ASSASSINATION. Hezekiah Oyugi, the Permanent Secretary for Internal Security, has been arguably the most powerful individual in the country after President Daniel Moi.
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Luos in diaspora . US Army having a word of God in Dholuo.
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Unlike TOM MBOYA whom we gave them and brought him back to us in a Casket. Unlike ROBERT OUKO whom we gave them and brought him back to us burnt beyond Recognition. Unlike ARGWINGS KODHEK whom we gave them only to be brought to us with a cotton in his mouth. .
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"If I accept your offer, I'll be seen as a traitor by my people. The British cannot elect me as a leader for my people. Kenyatta is around, just here in Lodwar, release him and let him lead us." - Jaramogi Oginga Odinga.
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Kuna Kuna Chief John Migun gets his first commercial advertisment 👏👏👏👏👏
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Tom Mboya and Martin Luther King Address a Civil Rights Rally
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1. Both men were born in 1961, Uhuru on 26th October 1961 and Barack on 4th August 1961;.2. Both their wives were born in 1964, Margaret Kenyatta on 8th April 1964 and Michelle Obama on 17th January 1964;.3. Both men are left-handed;.4. Both men are Kenyans;
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How Many People Grew up Knowing That this Was a Saliva of a Snake? 😂🙌
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Dear luo brothers and sisters, .1:Home is DALA. Not ushago. 2:Grandma is DANI. Not shosh or shosho or cucu. 3:Grandpa is KWARA/ KWARU.Not guks or guka. 4:Githeri is NYOYO. You'll pick up the githeri word when you get back to Nairobi.
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KILLING THE AFRICAN SUN. Something happened in Mombasa in the first week of May 1968. Jomo Kenyatta suffered a serious stroke at his Bamburi home. And it raised a lot of fear that the Big Man may not last long.
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A young Obama and his grandma in Kenya. Nobody knows what the future holds!!
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2- Don’t grab the property of the society, be content with what you earn and invest , don’t starve a Nation for your personal gains. 3- Be honest and forgiving , I your Father forgave all our enemies, people who tormented me. Two years later Jaramogi died!.
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"If I accept your offer, I will be seen as a traitor to my people. The British can not elect me a leader to my people. Kenyatta is a round, just here in Lodwar. Release him and allow him to lead us; he is already our choice " Jaramogi Oginga Odinga.
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Did you know the difference between Luoz, Luos, Jang'o, Mjaluo, Jaluo and Mjaka? Here's the difference and figure out where you belong. 1. Luoz - are all over the world, highly educated and articulate. I mean Obama type of people.
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What a gentleman!!. 1974, he had just been released from detention and had arrived at KICC hoping that he would be allowed to vie for a parliamentary seat , only to be told " Leo asubuhi nimepata habari ya kwamba mzee ametoa tarifa ya kwamba husimami".
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8 MAJOR USES OF BHANG ( CANABIS SATIVA) IN TRADITIONAL LUO SOCIETY. 1. It was used to treat wounds, the leaves boiled and its water used to clean the wounds. 2. It was chewed and then stuffed in baby's anus to treat "orienyacha" a diarrhoea among kids under five years old.
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1974 : Mzee Jomo Kenyatta receives Mobutu Sese Seko.
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Dr. Miguna Miguna , Mike Jacobs is alive and here .Avoid rhetoric and innuendos.
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Lt. Colonel Damaris Apondi Agnetta makes history as the first Luo to stand behind a serving president as a deputy ADC since independence and the second woman after Lieutenant-Colonel Rachel Nduta Kamui.
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1997 Ngilu as a presidential candidate on an SDP ticket contesting the results during vote tallying.
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Hezekiah Ochuka Senior Private 01-08-1982.The brave man who died with his head high, He told Oteyo to shut up when he started sobbing.He took his favourite WHISKY before being hanged in 1987.JaNyakach Oywa Ngori
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Position: New Clerk of Homabay County Assembly .Name: Anne Ager.Highest Level of Education: Form two
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A reminder that #Kisumu is the only city in East Africa accessible by Rail, Road, Lake ☱ and via an International Airport.
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Lieta Secondary school in South Uyoma performing Musa Juma's Owaga JB
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Gen Opande: The General Who Never Became A General . Lieutenant General Daniel Ishamel Opande is widely regarded as a 'general' though he never actually made it from Lieutenant General to full General rank. By 2000, he was Kenya's Vice Chief of the military when he was
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It was Sir George Owino also known as Big George aka Big G ,who was the founder of Big G chewing gums. He was also the sole distributor of orbit chewing gums in Kenya and Chairman of Wrigley East Africa. Jaluo introduced Nyemo
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Jaramogi Oginga Odinga and his daughter, Dr. Wenwa Akinyi, who was the first Kenyan woman to obtain a doctorate degree in chemistry.
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LUO NYANZA TOP SCHOOLS .(thread). 1. Maseno School .Maseno School is one of the oldest schools Kenya. It is a National school located in Kisumu County. Founded in 1906.
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Ongoing construction of Makasembo Affordable Housing Project by LAPFUND in partnership with the county government of Kisumu. No housing levy was collected.
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OCHOT ODONG in HomaBay is arguably one of Kenya’s most photographed signage. The tale behind the road sign In Luo:, the words on the signpost can have two meanings according to intonation.
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Memba Kenyatta, a Kenyan man claiming to be Kenyatta's son, is shown inside an Italian police vehicle in Rome in 1960, with his wife, Julia Gonzalez Memba, and infant, after being imprisoned for raising problems. Memba, claiming to be Kenyatta's son, had wreaked havoc on the
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Mke hapigwi, akileta kiburi pandisha yeye Cheo aitwe Bibi Mkubwa. Luo Proverb.
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SCENE at Jua Kali area, Kisumu. Just because a Matatu driver didn't pay 100 bob bribe to traffic police a woman has been shot.
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JaNyakach Okoth Opande has raised the bar . Nyuomo NyarSindo.
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1960 John F kennedy listens as Tom Mboya speaks to journalists outside ,John F kennedy's home at Hyannis port Massachusetts,Looking on is Tom mboya's younger brother Alphonce Okuku
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A CARPET OF THORNS .Saturday-the 20th of January, 1962 was the happiest day in Kenya's history. Mzee Walter Odede walked his daughter down the aisle at St' Clevers Catholic Church in Nairobi to marry Africa's most eligible bachelor. Everyone who mattered was there.
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Brief undated 39 second video clip of Oginga Odinga speaking;
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Luo Mps moko be ofuo ndi. Infact 3/4 of them are stupid
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JAMES AGGREY BOB ORENGO .JAMES Aggrey Bob ORENGO was born in 1951 in Ugenya, Siaya County. He started school in 1958 attending Ambira Primary School, where he finished his primary education in 1964.
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🤣😂😂😂Mnakula kivumbi from artists hii Dec eiii
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The "Luo collection" named after Kenya's Luo tribe. Interesting
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"That's why Kisumu will always remain behind in development" Guok
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Sinyolo Girls High School [ Kisumu West] with a cover of Azda by Franco Le TP OK Jazz 🔥
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