Just because I am preoccupied putting buffoons on .com in check is no license for some to get away posting falsehoods on my Bukusu people...
The truth is only a click or a Wikipedia away.
The seventeen tribes are the Bukusu (Aba-Bukusu), Idakho (Av-Idakho), Isukha (Av-Isukha), Kabras (Aba-Kabras), Khayo (Aba-Khayo), Kisa (Aba-Kisa), Marachi (Aba-Marachi), Maragoli (Aba-Logoli), Marama (Aba-Marama), Nyala (Aba-Nyala), Nyole (Aba-Nyole), Samia (Aba-Samia), Tachoni (Aba-Tachoni), Tiriki (Aba-Tiriki), Tsotso (Abatsotso), Wanga (Aba-Wanga), Batura (Abatura). They are closely related to the Masaba (or Gisu), whose language is mutually intelligible with Luhya. The Bukusu and the Maragoli are the two largest Luhya tribes.
The western province is the most densely populated part of Kenya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhya_people
Holders of the highest office in the land have seen it twice politically prudent to put, not once but twice, two luhyas a heart-beat way from the presidency - Awori and late Kijana Wamalwa - the latter was pick certainly not because he came from a "
tiny" tribe.
It is no secret why census results never get released. Were they, then they would provide valuable insight into two behavious. One why centro men get beaten senseless by their women for being unable to perform perhaps due to diminished capability due to copious amounts of illicit brew. Tyranny of numbers is an illusion they delude themselves with. Two, I schooled in what was expansive RV and I can tell first hand the sub-tribes combined aren't that many either.
And Robina, no, "Bukusu and are ripe for the taking", their political decisions are not hostage to any government - national or county. Bukusu land is blessed with bounty harvests and that is the basis of their independence. Google is your fren. It is a permanent feature that Luto is heckled so much that he now knows to avoid Bungoma town when he tours the county preferring to meander and address rural areas of the county that do not have capacity to embarrass him.
You were a tiny wee right on one thing, Mukhisa cannot connect to the grass-root in his backyard, he lost his parliamentary seat in 2007 when he was a powerful cabinet minister. People forget the man was Jobless before being plucked to join UNCTAD. Wetangula's influence on his people was recently exposed and aptly captured in a description by a Maasai senator "
a man with one cow cannot be the head of a cattle dip". Weta is not loved, only tolerated. Luhyas have never forgotten how he in 2007 he aligned himself with Kibaki against the position the Luhya collectively had taken. It is a good time he and Kalonzo gave up their dream to be president.
And BTW Bukusu are not Ugandan. In Uganda, Kenya, TZ, Luos retain their identity because in all those three countries they are indeed Luo. Bukusu are in Kenya. You may find Bagishu (bamasaba) in Uganda but you won't find a viable entity in Kenya called Bagisu. I hope you get the drift here.
Not the first time you post utterances you have not researched. We had this conversation a few weeks after the fire at JKIA:
Who cares for a broke continent when you have a thriving Asia,Africa,Middle east and Latin America.
The kind of propaganda some allow themselves to buy into hook, line and sinker is mind-boggling....
Somewhere on the 'broke' European Continent (Schipol Airport - Holland)
Somewhere on the 'thriving ' African Continent (JKIA Airport - Kenya)
Who succession line? Raila -he is dead on arrival? Western - he has no hope coming from a tiny sub-tribe? And he has the charisma of Eugene Wamalwa.
I would place Oparanya ahead of Kituyi in the succession line. Still it's early times. And also, it's the IEBC stupid.