Last borns in Luhya Culture

The one thing a true Luhya home kitchen never lacked

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picture of outdoor wooden rack with utensils kitaraze or ikitaraze in maragoli language also known as shitalasi in isukha, shitalalataliro in wanga, sirandaro in bukusu

There is a fixture of traditional Luhya home that’s made of wooden logs and sticks and serves as an outdoor stationed rack for air drying utensils. It is known in the various Luhya dialects as: kitaraze (lulogooli), shitalasi (lukisa, lwisukha, lwidakho), sirandaro (lubukusu), shitalataliro (luwanga), esichandaliroo (lunyala), esitaratsi (lunyore), eshitslasi (lutsotso). Join us and find … Read more

Marondo and last borns: The curious link between ugali, womb and pot among the Luhya

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marondo and lastborns

What, if any, could be the link between marondo and last borns? For non Lulogooli speakers, we speak of the crunchy stuff left stuck inside the sufuria after cooking ugali; not the soup made from boiling the legs, head and tongue of cows. In Tanzania, marondo the soup is known as supu ya kongoro. This … Read more