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Kiminayi: 70+ popular Bukusu riddles best for kids and kids at heart – unwind with fun brain teasers, find answers to, and translation of common Bukusu riddles

Riddles have been termed the most important African oral art form. Discover, have fun and learn with our growing list of Bukusu riddles – kiminayi

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4 uses of the special Bukusu pot kumuinda, the pot with two necks and mouths also known as namunwaebili or munwa mbili

Have you ever come across a pot with two mouths? I usually see them at market places. One time while travelling in a matatu, I casually asked a passenger sited next to me the uses of a striking two mouth earthenware pot that he delicately held on his laps. Mr. Waswa, let’s call him that,

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Learn Bukusu Language, speak Lubukusu just like that! 130+ common Bukusu words translations, meaning and pronunciation

Learn Bukusu language with us, the home of everything Mulembe. Bukusu language or Lubukusu is the tongue of Babukusu, the largest of the 18 houses of Mulembe Nation. Kick off your journey with these 130+ common Bukusu words. Learn their meaning, find translation into English and get started on getting pronunciations right. Learn Bukusu language

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Temptations, simsim and devious mothers in law: all part of the package an omwea, a newly married woman, had to overcome just to make herself a nest

A newly married woman in my language, Lubukusu, is known as omwea. Any of us can imagine just what it took for her to set up a nest for herself in the communal living homestead of our forebearers. Growing up, my mother was always preparing us girls for a future with a no nonsense mother

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#AfterDark: Shipoto meaning in English and other coded ways of talking dirty in Bukusu language without being awkward

So, you took in our tips on how to ask for sex in Bukusu and got lucky. Now the challenge is: how do you get things going? Maybe she likes it when you talk dirty. But will she mind you calling ‘it’ shipoto? TD;LR Shipoto or sipoto means vagina in Bukusu language, a dialect of

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Meet the Kevo, Brayo of Bukusuland in all their shades and colors from we kumurwe to waranya chimoni and we kamaru oli kutuyu

This is a story of kids being kids. Of kids finding their way in the world by appreciating, to put it loosely, the differences among themselves. Thus, they refuse to stop at the limits set by names that none of them in the first place chose. Meet the Kevo, Brayo of Bukusuland in all their

Meet the Kevo, Brayo of Bukusuland in all their shades and colors from we kumurwe to waranya chimoni and we kamaru oli kutuyu Read More »

All about ‘changa style ndolekho’, the penultimate dance of the Bukusu traditional circumcision ceremony

Changa style ndolekho is not a challenge to pronounce lightly. You better be prepared, you have to know how to strut your stuff on the dance floor. Most importantly, you must be prepared to leave it all there. Whenever, in the ceremony known as khuchukhila, a omusinde form Bayemba clan pours water that he’s fetched

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Let us learn how to refer to people in lubukusu: Basic Bukusu nouns referring to people

Welcome. Come learn Lubukusu with us. Today we introduce you to more basic Bukusu words. Here are 10 Bukusu nouns referring to people. This is how to refer to people in Lubukusu; with the respect, love and in accordance to the ethos of the spirit of mulembe. About the Bukusu Omundu Is the word used

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