My first visit to Kisumu was in 1990 - I remember going to snake park
- and two Luos fighting on the street
- must have been Jaramogi or Kenyatta street - we stood there - the entire school - to watch them - fight - but I think what impressed us they never took stones or sticks - they fought like a boxing ring - with their hands only. In kalenjin land - fights can become very deadly very quickly - because people carry swords or would pick sticks or stones very quickly. It why fights are really rare and discouraged. You can abuse somebody but he will likely flag it as "kids" talk - in fact the most common kalenjin word is to say "the kid has burped" when someone saying something childish or want to start some war. Kalenjin fight - as last resort - almost somebody is guaranteed to end up in a hospital - badly injured - if not dead. The two street luos did a few boxing and kick-boxing - some bleeding gums- and it ended - enough for us to buy groundnuts
Now South Sudan is like Kisumu I saw - Trigger Happy - Fights are going to keep erupting over the slightest disagreement. If a Luo was PORK in kenya - it will be the same - your people walk with their pride and ego on their hands. Disagreement would result in civil war like we saw in Uganda.
Which prejudice. We have bordered Luos for 500yrs or even more - in Sudan I bet. It an real issue.
Kipsigis including my grandfather and father who studied and lived with Luos - were always right on the mark.
The major tribal groups bordering the Kipsigis, and the general Kipsigis stereotype of each may be summarized as follows:
To the north, the Nandi,, differing from the Kipsigis only in very minor ways. Said to be brave, strong, even-tempered and peaceful among themselves, trustworthy, sexually strict, and so forth. To the Kipsigis they are "just the same as we are."
To the south, the Maasai, whose culture in many ways represents extreme developments of Kipsigis tendencies. Described as fearless in battle, arrogant, aggressive, cruel, manly, direct in their dealings with others, wealthy in cattle and stubborn about modern changes. They are as much to be admired as to be feared.
To the southwest, the Bantu Gusii, hot-headed and quarrelsome, unruly, noisy, dirty, afraid of the ark. In sum, an unsavory bunch nut dangerous because of their large numbers.
To the Northwest, the Nilotic Luo, meek, cowardly, strong in the use of magic but pushovers in a direct confrontation, sexually rather loose, poor, well-suited for menial, manual labor. To the Kipsigis the Luo are women, or at best children.
You seem to be reveling in anti Luo prejudice lately? You want to outdo your in laws it seems.
No rite of passage could tame those unruly freaks. They are just genetic mutants who should just die out.
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