embwa ya wele

25+ clever Bukusu idioms about the dog: Expand your vocabulary and learn the meaning of expressions and sayings about the dog – embwa

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Expand your Bukusu language vocabulary with the following Bukusu idioms about the dog. Learn their meaning and translation. I grew up with a black dog named Toki. Since you know my people cannot pronounce d and g, we joyfully replace the d sound with t and g sound with k. This must have been the … Read more

Embwa ya Wele: A phrase that succinctly captures the richness of Lubukusu

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painting of garden of Eden a place where in Lubukusu we might expect to find embwa ya wele, the dogs of god

Today, lets talk Lubukusu, the language of  Mubukusu.  Lubukusu is rich: lustrous when spoken, immensely expressive in song and damn descriptive in capturing the quintessence of our ways such as when naming our children or when tying the knot as in khuboa chinyinja.  Look, I am Bukusu who was majorly schooled in Maragoli land.  I am one … Read more