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	Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Luo are the third largest ethnic group (11%) in Kenya, after the Kikuyu (21%), with whom they shared major political power in the first years of Kenyan independence (from 1963) and the Luhya (14%).
		In 1994 the Luo population in Kenya was estimated to be 3,185,000 [1].
		The Luo were generally not dispossessed of their land by the British, thus avoiding the fate that befell the pastoral tribes inhabiting the Kenyan "White Highlands".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luo_(Kenya) (1546 words)

	Music of Kenya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Congolese musicians were the most popular performers in Kenya during the 1970s and '80s, only losing their mainstream acceptance in the early 1990s.
		Kenya's diverse ethnic groups each have their own folk music traditions, though most have declined in popularity in recent years as gospel music became more popular.
		The Luo (Kenya) are best-known for their Benga music, which has become the root of most Kenyan pop.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Kenya (1937 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		Kenya is bounded on the N by Sudan and Ethiopia, on the E by Somalia and the Indian Ocean, on the S by Tanzania, and on the W by Lake Victoria and Uganda.
		The chief rivers of Kenya are the Tana and Galana (known as the Athi in its upper course).
		The resident population of Kenya (1994 est.) was 27,450,000.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/nations/kenya.html (3877 words)

	Kenya - MSN Encarta
		As an independent country, Kenya was initially a constitutional monarchy, with the British monarch as its nominal head of state and a prime minister as head of government.
		Kenya’s vice president, an ethnic Luo named Oginga Odinga, resigned from the government in 1966 and formed the Kenya People’s Union (KPU), which drew a great deal of Luo support away from KANU and presented the Kenyatta government with a challenge.
		Kibaki was sworn in as president of Kenya in late December, ending four decades of KANU rule.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564507_10/Kenya.html#howtocite (1430 words)

	Profile - Kenya
		Nairobi, in the temperate Kenya highlands, receives an average annual rainfall of 790 mm (31 in) and experiences average temperatures ranging from 9° to 29° C (48° to 84° F) in January and 7° to 26° C (45° to 79° F) in July.
		The Lake Victoria basin in western Kenya is generally the wettest region in the country, particularly the highland regions to the north and south of Kisumu, where average annual rainfall ranges from 1,740 mm (70 in) to 1,940 mm (80 in).
		The rate of population increase in Kenya between 1980 and 1990 was 3.4 percent, one of the highest in the world; by 1998 the rate of increase had declined to 1.7 percent.
	www.inadev.org /profile_-_kenya.htm (7566 words)

	Minorities At Risk (MAR)
		The Luo are concentrated in Nyanza Province in Kenya's southwest (GROUPCON = 3).
		The Luo were also politically advantaged for the first years of independence as a group member, Oginga Odinga, who was a KANU leader, held the office of the vice-president.
		Kenya is riddled by poverty, corruption and widespread crime.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/kenluo.htm (1602 words)

	An Introduction to Kenya
		Kenya is situated right along the equator, on the eastern coast of the African continent.
		While much of northeastern Kenya is a flat, bush-covered plain, the remainder of the country encompasses pristine beaches, scenic highlands and lake regions, the Great Rift Valley, and the magnificent Mount Kenya.
		Kenya's population is overwhelmingly (97%) comprised of people of African descent, though that group is composed of over 70 different tribal groups.
	www.geographia.com /kenya (403 words)

	Luo (Dholuo) Phrases and Basics
		Because Luo speakers are centered in southwest Kenya, there are significant populations of Luo speakers across the borders in both Tanzania and Uganda.
		Luo occasionally borrows from Kiswahili, as Kiswahili has a larger vocabulary, and is one of the official national languages of Kenya.
		Luo is the mother tongue spoken by about 13% of the population of Kenya.
	economics.ozier.com /language/dholuo.html (1195 words)

	Kenya Safaris,Tours and Travel, Kenya Safari
		Kenya Safaris have proved to be a very popular byword in the tourism sector.
		While much of northeastern Kenya is a flat, bush-covered plain, the rest of the country comprises pristine beaches, scenic highlands and lake regions, the Great Riftvalley, and the magnificent Mountainous regions of Kenya.
		Kenya has known the presence of mankind since the very earliest development of known human species.
	www.kenyaspace.com (963 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Luo in Kenya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Luo were at the forefront of the anti-Moi opposition.
		In 2001, Luo tenants clashed with Nubian landlords in the slums of Kiber.
		In 2002 fighting broke out between the Luo and Kikuyu after a Kikuyu man was killed by a Kikuyu man, resulting in 20 deaths, and Luo killed a supporter of the KANU government.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=50104 (1492 words)

	Mama Maria - Luo and Suba Tribes
		Luos name their children at the time of day that they are born, for example: Atieno is a girl born at night, Akinyi is morning, Achien’g when the sun is high.
		In Kenya, the Luo are known as the lovers of fish.
		Luo funerals are still extravagant affairs, reflecting the time-honored role of ancestor worship in unifying lineages.
	www.mamamaria.org /subas.htm (2948 words)

	African Home Adventure Kenya Camping Tanzania Safaris Lodge Safaris Trekking climbing Kilimanjaro
		The major tribes in Kenya are Luo, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kikuyu and Luhya which together account for 70% of the total population.
		In Luo, age, wealth and respect are converging, and elders control family resources including representation of the family in affairs beyond the compound.
		This is the biggest conglomeration of sub-tribes in to one ethnic group in the country that comprise 20% of the total population.
	www.africahomeadventure.com /cultural.htm (2459 words)

	BBC News \| Africa \| Aids forces change on Kenya's Luo people (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		She is a member of the third largest tribe in the country, the Luo, which is known for strong customs including polygamy and lavish burial ceremonies.
		According to Luo custom, Millicent was expected to marry her brother-in-law, regardless of how many wives he already had.
		And the tradition of wife inheritance is being blamed as one of the contributing factors.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/363205.stm (646 words)

	Kenya
		From October 1952 to December 1959, Kenya was under a state of emergency arising from the Mau Mau rebellion against British colonial rule.
		Kenya became independent on December 12, 1963, and the next year joined the Commonwealth.
		The minority party, Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU), representing a coalition of small tribes that had feared dominance by larger ones, dissolved itself voluntarily in 1964 and joined KANU.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/countries/Kenya.html (437 words)

	"Crossroads," Public Health, Fall 1996
		Members of Kenya's Luo ethnic group live here in dispersed communities and trading centers spread along the lakeshore and inland plains.
		Luo farmers grow maize and beans as their staples and supplement their diets with fish from the lake.
		Cities in western Kenya are studies in contrast, with modern architecture and transportation juxtaposed against ancient rural practices.
	www.whsc.emory.edu /_pubs/ph/phfall96/crossroads.html (1923 words)

	Languages: living on borrowed time
		The two boys are firmly convinced that their family is Luo - Kenya's second-largest ethnic group - because they speak the language, observe the community's customs, and have a rural home near Lake Victoria, which is the heartland of the Luo.
		The demise of the Suba has been a thorough one, fuelled by a pre-colonial ethnic colonialism imposed by the Luo, sustained intermarriage between the two communities, and an inconsiderate colonial policy that crafted borders that effectively cut off the Kenyan Subas from their kin in Tanzania and Uganda.
		The end result are hybrid Luos such as Oduol - fluent in Luo, with Luo wives and names - who cannot speak their extinct mother tongue, practice their culture, and pass their own history to youngsters such as Jeff and Roy.
	www.newsfromafrica.org /newsfromafrica/articles/art_7865.html (1550 words)

	Church and State in Kanya
		KENYA-- United Christian Churches of Kenya have lodged a court application to block Prof.
		The Luo are held at arm's length in church affairs, and the Luo, along with the Balouya along the north of Lake Victoria, have to fight to be included in church affairs, especially in the AIC.
		Kenya church leaders are tribal thugs and power brokers of the most vicious and evil stripe.
	www.blessedquietness.com /journal/theworld/kenya01.htm (1267 words)

	Kenyan Greetings - Luo traditional marriages
		These people, the first settlers in western Kenya, supposedly moved south after 1000 C.E. from the Nile region, through the Sudan, arriving in Uganda by the early 1400’s, and then what is now Kenya by the late 1400’s and 1500’s.
		In the Luo community, sisters can get married to one man. If one is married and the parents come to visit, they are not allowed to sleep in her house.
		In Luo, is was generally accepted for man to marry a wife with a child or children that may not be necessarily his biological child.
	www.kenyangreetings.com /72.html (1440 words)

	Kenya - HISTORY
		* Kenya was first populated by a number of small dispersed tribal groups, the main groups were the Kikuyu, Kamba, Luo and Masai.
		The British were just interested in controlling the rich resources of Uganda and to facilitate this they built a railway between Mombasa and Kampala using labourers from India, many of whom remained and have become todays merchant class.
		The consequence of this was the formation of guerrilla troops, Mau Mau, who all took an oath to commit themselves to expelling all white settlers in Kenya and to eliminate the Africans who cooperated with or benefited from colonial rule.
	www.africanet.com /africanet/country/kenya/history.htm (869 words)

	MinistryWatch - Education Center Articles
		Kenya (MNN)--The International Bible Society released their contemporary-language Luo New Testament for those who speak Luo in Kenya and East AFrica.
		About 70% of the Luo people cannot understand the existing Luo Bible that was written by early Christian missionaries.
		Luo speakers now have a New Testament in the language that they speak every day.
	www.ministrywatch.com /mw2.1/E1_Txt.asp?DocID=1686 (164 words)

	People of Kenya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In 1904 and 1912-13 the British government relocated the Masai population to distant southern Kenya and Tanzania, where they now live.
		Masai males are rigidly classed by age into boys, warriors, and elders.
		The Masai, most of whom are nomadic throughout the year, live in kraals, small clusters of cow-dung huts constructed by the women.
	dickinsg.intrasun.tcnj.edu /nations/kenya/people.html (407 words)

	Nilo-Saharan Language Family
		The two most populous languages (each spoken by 3.5 million people) are Luo of Kenya, and Kanuri of Nigeria.
		For instance, in Kenya, Luo and Masai are taught in primary schools along with English and Swahili.
		The Ugandan poet, novelist and social anthropologist Okot p'Bitek was one of the first writers in Africa to write in his native language (Acholi) rather than in English or French.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/september/nilo.html (1120 words)

	Ethnologue report for ISO 639 code: luo
		The code luo is classified in ISO 639 as an individual language code.
		3,185,000 in Kenya (1994 I. Larsen BTL) or 13.8% of the population (1987).
		Classification: Nilo-Saharan, Eastern Sudanic, Nilotic, Western, Luo, Southern, Luo-Acholi, Luo.
	www.ethnologue.com /14/show_iso639.asp?code=luo (56 words)

	Luo, - Homepage of Wei Luo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Ming Luo, Ph.D. Ming Luo, Ph.D. Professor Department of Microbiology.
		Xiao Luo is an associate research fellow at the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica.
		Luo Gan, male, 67, Han nationality, a native of Ji'nan, Shandong Province, was born in July 1935.
	linkfollow.com /lkfl/luo.html (312 words)

	benga: Afropop Style -- Kenya, East Africa
		By the late '60s, guitar-based bands cranked out Luo songs in an energetic new style called benga that thrived for two decades and survives today.
		By the end of the '70s, potent forms of Zairean pop threatened local Kenyan music to the point where Voice of Kenya radio discouraged all but East African pop on the airwaves, boosting benga to new heights.
		Meanwhile, neo-traditional groups, notably Kapere Jazz Band, formed in 1986, and nyatiti player Ogwang Lelo Okoth are reviving the Luo roots of benga by returning to the one-string orutu fiddle, the nyatiti lyre, as well as Fanta bottle and other percussion.
	www.afropop.org /explore/style_info/ID/4/Benga (464 words)

	Anuak Justice Council, Anuak History
		The Anuak are a Luo-speaking people of the Eastern Sudanic language family that includes the Western Nilotic Luo in the Bahr al-Ghazal and the Luo of Kenya and the Maasai of Tanzania.
		The original homeland of the Luo appears to have been the Gezira, the "island" of fertile land between the Blue and White Niles south of Khartoum.
		The numbers of Luo were small and the pace of their migration must be measured in generations not decades.
	www.anuakjustice.org /doc_history_to_1956.htm (13897 words)

	music - OGUTA LIE BOBO from Kenya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		OGUTA LIE BOBO is a traditional folk-music group from western Kenya (Luo tribe from southern Lake Victoria).
		Besides functioning as entertainment the traditional music of the Luo people serves to communicate moral ideas to the younger generation in that it frequently describes everyday life, religion, etc.
		OGUTA LIE BOBO have toured widely in Kenya, participating in cultural festivals and performing at weddings, funerals, tourist hotels, etc.
	www.natmus.cul.na /projects/samp/music/kenya.html (175 words)

	MIAS Research Projects and Theses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Church and Development in Kenya: A Case Study of Development/Outreach Initiatives in the Nairobi Environs with Specific Reference to Kibera Slums by Nairobi Baptist Church, Ngong' Road.
		Rituals as Psychotherapy among the Luo of Kenya.
		Death as a Rite of Passage and the Present Challenges Among the Luo of Kenya.
	www.mias.edu /projects.htm (5183 words)

	Luo Bibliography - Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya
		Nairobi, Kenya: PhD dissertation, University of Nairobi, 1973; Kenya Literature Bureau, 1979
		Evans-Pritchard, E.E. Ghostly vengeance among the Luo of Kenya
		Nairobi, Kenya: Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, September 1983
	www.bluegecko.org /kenya/bibliography/luo.htm (417 words)

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