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Bukusu Culture
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 Kenya, comes circumcision year.…
Luhya traditional circumcision
Answers to frequently asked questions on likhoni or luliki in Bukusu circumcision. Use the comments section to post more questions which we will endeavor to answer as accurate as possible. For more terms, phrases,…
Luhya traditional circumcision
Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who is the fairest of them all? The language of music is the fairest and the most unifying of all. As with sikhebo songs, which even as they morph…
Luhya traditional circumcision
The Bukusu circumcision ceremony is important to the health of the community of Babukusu, the largest of the 18 houses of mulembe, because it brings together kith and kin in celebration of life, progress…
Luhya traditional circumcision
The year 2020 was the year of the traditional circumcision among the Bukusu. In spite of earlier public health concerns over COVID-19, this important pillar of Luhya society came to pass albeit with less…
Bukusu Culture
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 etiang'i in the path…
Luhya traditional circumcision
The Bukusu traditional circumcision ceremony that takes place every even year, is the most attended event in Western Kenya's rich cultural tourism experience. Whilst most local and foreign visitors get to experience, participate and…
Luhya Culture
Khocha is a male sibling to your mother. Broadly speaking, in the way African relations are expansive, chomba in Bukusu slang; or kocha, koza or kotsa in lulogooli is any of your mother's relations…
Bukusu Culture
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…
Bukusu Culture
Four things. One: omusinde. Two: a proud father. Three: kamalwa khuyusia, ancestors' timely but unwelcome lessons, the elusive nature of trust and kamalwa kakatikhe. This is the story of a boy whose big day,…
