Mwambu

Khukona Mwikhokho: Back In The Day, It Was Sometimes No Taboo For A Father To ‘Take’ His Son’s Woman

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Khukhona mwikhokho is a fast fading Bukusu cultural marriage practice whose contribution to polygamous marriages of the polygyny type (embalikha) of yesteryear is one hard to ignore. We feature it for cultural purposes. Possibly also to offer answers to a lost soul who on tracing their roots, came by a relation that in today’s westernized … 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