Epic Luo Stories

There is no doubt that most Luo women, educated or illiterate are in very similar situations to the woman in the story of the visitor from Nairobi. Caught in a bad marriage, trampled on, abused and reduced to nothing, you cannot go back home to your motherland because culture and tradition dictates that marriage is one way. Where can you be buried and who wants to bother with the details of burying an odhi oduogo.

Read the story and decide for yourself which Luo man you are you. Are you like Okech Ndia who could not get a meal out of his wife? Not because she did not know how to cook. Far from it. She simply sabotaged the process. In return, she embarrassed the man before his important visitor. Are you like Ondung’ son of Rapemo who knew about the culture and tradition of the Luo and simply got the best of what he asked for? Respect and honour for a wife is the greatest gift you can pass down to humanity. Those who mistreat women, must suffer the consequences of perishing the lineage and discontinuing the family tree.

There is no doubt that most Luo women, educated or illiterate are in very similar situations to the woman in the story of the visitor from Nairobi. Caught in a bad marriage, trampled on, abused and reduced to nothing, you cannot go back home to your motherland because culture and tradition dictates that marriage is one way. Where can you be buried and who wants to bother with the details of burying an odhi oduogo.

Read the story and decide for yourself which Luo man you are you. Are you like Okech Ndia who could not get a meal out of his wife? Not because she did not know how to cook. Far from it. She simply sabotaged the process. In return, she embarrassed the man before his important visitor. Are you like Ondung’ son of Rapemo who knew about the culture and tradition of the Luo and simply got the best of what he asked for? Respect and honour for a wife is the greatest gift you can pass down to humanity. Those who mistreat women, must suffer the consequences of perishing the lineage and discontinuing the family tree.