These people have a naming ceremony called the juogi and their music prominently features the nyatiti, an eight-stringed lyre.
These people have a naming ceremony called the juogi and their music prominently features the nyatiti, an eight-stringed lyre. These people speak a Nilotic language similar to the Acholi and their chiefs are known as Ruodhi. These people, who live largely off of fishing, originated near Winam Gulf. One of their most famous leaders refused the presidency of a country because he did not want to lose his status as a ker, or spiritual leader, while another, Tom Mboya, was assassinated. Heavily concentrated in the Nyanza province, they make up a majority of the population in Kisumu as well as in the slum of Kibera. The current prime minister of ► Kenya, Raila Odinga, is a member of, for 10 points, what ethnic group whose most famous member may have been Barack Obama Sr.?
These people have a naming ceremony called the juogi and their music prominently features the nyatiti, an eight-stringed lyre.
Luo [or Jaluo; or Joluo]