The many dialects of luo in Uganda, South and Anyua in Ethiopia are very traditional unlike the Kenyan luo , who are so modern and the culture diluted by their neighbor cumminities. In Kenya there's always this competing between the Luos of Siaya and the greater south nyanza for who are the pure luos. But from what I get from Peter's interaction, Jo siaya is closer to jopadhola and Jonam. Meanwhile, Peter look for Irene Ayaa TV. She's an Acholi from Pajok in Southern Sudan. She's having a great effort like your program to make all of us understand our various dialects. Such that when we move around among our various groups we need not translation but let everybody speak theirs but we all understand. I am wishing you the very best in your pursue of our greater LUO across Africa.
Thank you again Woudnam on a beautiful presentation. I can see your channel growing which is wonderful. Business plan is required. Luo keaders in each county/country need to support this journey. Its for our kids. 😊
You’re welcome. Help me share the content widely. I need more luos on board. And ofcourse support will soon be necessary because it’s getting bigger than I imagined.
The power of research and observation! K'Ogot is more informed than those two Ugandan journalists. K'Ogot knows more about Luos in Uganda than Ugandans!!!
Thanks for the great work. However I suggest that you also try to get to Zombo where the Alur King is. You have managed to interact with Pakwach and Nebbi, Zombo can close it up for you with moer clarity on the Alur as in Uganda.
This is much fascinating Mr Kogot. I feel elated when I here my brothers and sisters else where talk like me with little dialect difference. Keep it up.
Great great job my brother I love what you are doing my brother. Try as much as you can to see these ethic groups all yearn to know love and accept each other no matter the geographical location thanks brother am proud to be a luo and am proud to hear of my brothers in Uganda tororo 27:01
Not the fish. Both languages are atonal. This contrasts with remarkably tonal Bantu languages like luGanda, kiDigo, eke-Gusii, siZulu, or kiKamba. English and dho-Luo have similar consonants, vowels, and many words that end with vowels. Words such as Bet, Par, An, In, Wan, Bed, Tol, Thing, Got, Wich, Pat, etc, inter-weave both languages in terms of spelling and pronounciation. Just a linguistic coincidence. It is possibe for Luo speakers to borrow English words like "glass", "balance", "plan", "break", and "syllabus" and apply them without change, unlike the Bantu speakers. On the other hand, Kiswahili and some Bantu speakers would find Italian and Japanese very easy cos of distinct syllables and many words which must end with a vowel: Italiano, Arsenali (Arsenal), etc.
The real Luo Nilotes are in Sudan and Ethiopia. Kenyan Luos have been intermarrying with Bantu tribes like the Luhyas for a long time, making them more Bantu compared to the Luo Nilotes in Sudan. An average Luo person in Kenya is more Bantu than a Nilote. The only true Nilotes left in Kenya are the Maasai, Kalenjin, Samburu, Turkana, and Iteso. The only Nilotic element remaining in the Luo of Kenya is their language.
@@michaelcody3960 go read the genetics of luos in kenya i don't need to isolate anyone. The genetics of luos in kebya says they bantus not nilotic. If you feel isolated by that fact then that's your issue
@@eng.makolal1367 Because they were beaten the most in schools and told not to speak their mother tounges. It is a fight now we need to change this fast, people must speak their natural dialects without fear.
I'm Haitian by birth with roots in Africa, though I'm yet to make a trip to Africa. My fraternal grandpa hailed from a place called Siaya. I believe it's in Sudan/Ethiopia, thereabout.
Wow! It's by fate that I bumped on to this channel in my quest to find more about my family tree. Do you speak French? I feel comfortable conversing in French as English is a third language.
PETER huwa nakufuatilia kwa karibu sana si muda mrefu utafiti unaofanya ni wa faida kubwa itakuwa habari njema kupewa shahada ya HESHIMA Professor PETER OGOT nikiwa DAR ES SALAAMA TANZANIA nakufuatialia kwa karibu sana HONGERA SANA.
To the female presenter, with due respect, please kindly get rid of the wig and present Luo in a natural way. There is absolutely nothing wrong with your hair. You can still manipulate it in many and make it look nice without wearing or carrying additional things on top of it. It is really embarrassing. Please note: Whatever is published online in this digital era goes worldwide. Nonetheless, it's a great program.
@@bernardgwendo7233 that was a comment for the bringing confidence in the natural look. I have seen these girls trying hard but it looks like they feel inferiority complex, wearing trausers, trying to be like white or Western women, it is about time we tell them they are beautiful as African ladies, Lwo/Luo garments, present to the world.
There is mer which is familiarising with someone in a friendly way; there is also mer which is drunkenness. The intonation is of importance. There is mar which is liking and miti which is love
@@odochokee9856 The real Luo Nilotes are in Sudan and Ethiopia. Kenyan Luos have been intermarrying with Bantu tribes like the Luhyas for a long time, making them more Bantu compared to the Luo Nilotes in Sudan. An average Luo person in Kenya is more Bantu than a Nilote. The only true Nilotes left in Kenya are the Maasai, Kalenjin, Samburu, Turkana, and Iteso. The only Nilotic element remaining in the Luo of Kenya is their language.
The real Luo Nilotes are in Sudan and Ethiopia. Kenyan Luos have been intermarrying with Bantu tribes like the Luhyas for a long time, making them more Bantu compared to the Luo Nilotes in Sudan. An average Luo person in Kenya is more Bantu than a Nilote. The only true Nilotes left in Kenya are the Maasai, Kalenjin, Samburu, Turkana, and Iteso. The only Nilotic element remaining in the Luo of Kenya is their language.
@@Kum_53f real nilotes are in the Nile valley region those who are in Kenya and Ethiopia are actually nilo-hamites . They have much hamite blood. DNA sampling has revealed this
A 'little' "BIG" question to Pat and Emma.. Why are you 2 not using your first given native Acoli names.. (name and mother tongue are the first2 natural [native] IDENTITY pointers.. Apwoyo.. Yot kom...
FREE ADVICE: Being a proud people is ok since it shrinks inferiority complex. Luo dances and nights are OK, but should be strictly a beginning of something larger. Fetes, and dances power adrenaline, but beyond a point, would breed a bunch of clowns. In a modern and competitive world, the pride fetes and fests alone will not give traction and mileage. One may ask mockingly and with justification, PROUD OF WHAT? The Sputnik make Russians proud. The Volvo makes Swedes proud. The Bajaj motocyce make Indians proud. Kikuyus of Kenya have business acumen and a good millionaire per capita. Some Indian clans in Kenya have the MP Shah Hospitals, yet others have the Aga Khan cluster of schools and hospitals . These achivements are "brainy" and concrete and place a community in better stead than simply wearing suits, dancing, riding volvos, drinking French wine, etc, Think think think, outside the cuiture box, your future hangs on it.The Luo nation needs a vision that stands in the past, grasps the present, but is future and modernity responsive.
@@Mrpwocber I bet he is one of those ID-less fellows.. so mixed in his blood he does not have a proper original "reference point".. no native name/language/cultural practices.. a stranger wherever he happens to be...
@@vincentomondi2153 What do you understand by assimulation? In Uganda we do not believe this at all. They are not Luo/Lwo and it will not change the fact that these groups are Ateker they are not Luo/Lwo nor should be regarded as Lwo/Luo.
@@vincentomondi2153 We cannot and should not try to change people's ethnic group to become Luo/Lwo by this so called assimulation. Lwo/Luo are 12 tribes of Israel, you cannot change some people's ethnicity to become one of the 12 tribes - at least that will not happen.
@@vincentomondi2153 They are not Luo/Lwo by ethnic origin and I think we should not push that narrative at least not in this day and age where people know their ethnic origins. They are Abasuba and I heard their complaints they want to seceed and be recognized as separate. I am actually surprised that you and others are pushing this assimilation thing to Uganda ethnic groups who are clearly Ateker. We cannot deny the truth that these are non Luo ethnic groups. Let us leave it like that.
Kenyans luos are not real luos they are bantu, they only adopted the luo language but they are genetically bantu. The real luos are in south sudan, ug but the kenyan luos are more of luhya. The luos of kenya no longer exist its only the language
@@isaacodhiambo4671 it's not a joke, search the genetics studies of luos, luos in kenya are genetically more similar to luhyas than to other nilotes. Luos of kenya only speak luo language but the luos are bantu not nilotes
@@alfredagunda3699 it is true that Luo people are more Bantu than Nilotes. The real Luo Nilotes are in Sudan and Ethiopia. Kenyan Luos have been intermarrying with Bantu tribes like the Luhyas for a long time, making them more Bantu compared to the Luo Nilotes in Sudan. An average Luo person in Kenya is more Bantu than a Nilote. The only true Nilotes left in Kenya are the Maasai, Kalenjin, Samburu, Turkana, and Iteso. The only Nilotic element remaining in the Luo of Kenya is their language.
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