Traditional and contemporary Bukusu culture covered in refreshing detail and breadth; along rites of passage, stages of life and events such as: birth, naming, circumcision, marriage, burial and death.
An election, a season and a song: The story behind enjaka khunywa makalama, the song of the 2022 Bukusu traditional circumcision season. Every two years, to the Luhya of western … Read more
One of the most important rules in Bukusu culture is you’re not to greet your parents-in-law by the hand. The ways of our forebearers strictly forbids it. Learn why The … Read more
I will tell you a story of a girl by the name Kesekwa and her dream. A crazy dream that explains menses and pregnancy in Luhya dream interpretation. Kesekwa’s Dream … Read more
Over days and weeks the initiate, omusinde, through song and dance, calls his kith and kin to witness his becoming of a man. But some two days before the big … Read more
Meet the Bukusu proverb ‘slippery ground has no king’. In Lubukusu Burerere sebuli ne omwami ta. You can also say Bumuimiu seburia omwami. Meaning and use of this Bukusu proverb … Read more
We explore the meaning of the Bukusu saying sikolonjo sialinda ekunda. In the process, we shed light on aspects of the traditional Bukusu land tenure system, pottery and circumcision. Sikolonjo … Read more
What is the cultural significance of sikolonjo (potsherds) in Luhya culture? We take journey form the times before to more recent days in the life of Babukusu and Mulogooli people … Read more
A narration and the symbolic meaning of the Bukusu traditional circumcision tradition khukhombia kumukango. An experience designed to stir the lion within. Senje hides herself a few meters from the … Read more
Poverty will make you dance at your in-laws. The meaning of the Bukusu proverb ‘kumutambo kukila wakhina ebukhwe’ through the unfortunate story of Maelo. A story is told of one … Read more
A sad tale chronicling unfortunate events that saw children suffer the curse of a father and what had to be done to reverse it as dictated by Bukusu culture
