Thanks again. Is a history I could tell having supported Ford-Kenya like no other party. I even had a membership card 😅. The team from your Bungoma really supported Jaramogi. I remember Kapten and knew his son. Same with Kituyis relatives, and the whole lot - Noah Wekesa included. Returning the briefcase tells me that Jaramogi was very different from today's leaders. Coming across from Siaya the Jaramogi succession was tricky because there were two issues at stake. He was the party leader and was the Luo leader - a position he held even when in the Kanu wilderness. There is more than can be posted here but that Raila succeed him was not as obvious as it looks today. Many of the leaders including James Orengo a frontrunner in this regard supported Wamalwa Kijana as party leader. To some extent one thing that weighed against Wamalwa, and not of his making is that the party lost 6 straight by elections in Kakamega occasioned by defection from Ford-Asili to Kanu - Butere, Lugari, ... Some of my peers were shocked. But that is the environment where Raila aided by the late Kajwang mapano swayed the Luo vote. My father was a historian like Khwatenge and I still remember his thoughts on the Jaramogi succession (as a kingpin) a question I raised. His prediction was that it would be murky and would take time to settle. And he was spot on in everything - except that he believed late Bishop Okulu would emerge victorious. Anyway very importantly for me, are you aware of a Bukusu age-set around 1914 called Abanyenyedzi, or are they documented somewhere? Why am asking is a long story. Answer please.
I remember the Baengele fanfare when we lost Wamalwa. Apparently kinship among the Luhya is like the Luo. If you remember Oburu calling Ogolla's son his uncle. It is kinda similar logic.
