Meet the King of Meats: Why you couldn’t invite friends and family over to feast on buffalo meat (Luhya taboo foods)

Among the Luhya, it was relatively common to use buffalo hide to make traditional Luhya shields and sleeping mats. However, feasting on buffalo meat required luck. For you had to chance upon it. Meet the king of meats according to a Bukusu proverb and Luhya food taboos. It has always been a Luhya thing to … Read more

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

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

The Culture Of Fines And Luhya Myths On Infidelity

poster featuring animal skull for effect to highlight the sacrifice aspect of silukhi, that demonstrates the role of fine and luhya myths

In part nine of this series on how to get away with eating rats- chimbeba, we opined that cheating wasn’t a cheap life style choice. In the same way, this installment of the twelve part series further cements this truth by way of describing in some detail, the ways of our forefathers. This captivating take … Read more