Omwami Mwene 
In this part of the series, I remember the first battle of Lumboka. A battle whose significance has been lost to confusion. Read on to meet the forgotten heroes of Lumboka. About The Series In this first part of the Mulembe Nation series that honors the memory of the gallant shujaas of Chetambe, I detail … Read more
In this penultimate installment of part 1 of our series honoring the mashujaa of the Bukusu resistance, we honor the heroes of Chetambe War of 1895. We started off this series by defining the time and place of the different battles that were the culmination of the Bukusu resistance to imperialists and slave traders. I … Read more
Our account today in the this third installment of part one of our three part series honoring the memory of the heroes of Chetambe war focuses on the heroes, shujaas of the Lumboka war. Therefore, we will remain marooned on the story of the brave fight by shujaa Maina and his two sons. The selfless … Read more
How about we learn some Lunyole words. Lunyole/ Nyole/ Olunyole/ Nyore/ Olunyore is spoken by the Anyole of Vihiga County. But before we enjoy the roll of this beautiful language off our tongues, a bit of surprising trivia. Whilst researching this article, I came across a classification of languages that on one part is proof … Read more
The aim of this article is to teleport the reader back to a struggle for emancipation in colonial Kenya that, in our view, has been criminally forgotten. Our objective is that by the series end we would have done justice to the remembrance of the shujaas of Chetambe war. To realize our goal, we will … Read more
If you thought that blind dates are a modern phenomenon, the following story on a hilarious Luhya version of Tinder will re-frame your perceptions. This story isn’t about arranged customary marriages from the days of Jairus, my grandfather, and Nakhatama, my grandmother. Our story today is set in peri-independence Kenya. To put it another way, … Read more
You asked, “How does one say thank you in Maragoli?” We’ve answered with six unique ways that will have you covered in any situation or occasion. Speakers of other Luhya dialects might disagree, but Lulogooli/ Lulogoli/ Llogoori/ KiMaragoli/ Maragoli is one of the easiest languages to learn, especially for Bantu speakers. One can say that … Read more
Alongside the talented likes of Choffuri and the late John Gift, Mulamwah is first among equals in a pioneering generation of entertainers practicing a form of comedy that observers have labelled as online comedy or status comedy. They are young, gifted, proudly representative of their Mulembe heritage, with a high ceiling and just getting started. … Read more
Do you know of a town in Mulembe, vibrant and growing, that sits at the confluence of major roads and is plainly called Makutano? We scoured the landscape of the former Western province and couldn’t find one. Our diversity in language and expressiveness, this parts of Kenya, means that we could never. And so we … Read more
Vibrant during the heydays of Pan Paper, Webuye almost sunk under the weight of economic depression. The collapse of Pan Paper destroyed families, killed dreams and lead to early deaths. But a corner of it defiantly kept kicking on. Its pulse raced largely thanks to the entrepreneurial zest of a woman: Dina Nasiku Kibunguchy. It … Read more
