CORD leader leads mourners in chants to honour Otieno Kajwang'

Kenya: “Young man what you eat is what you count,” said Coalition for Reforms and Democracy leader Raila Odinga in his native Dholuo language as he prepared to address thousands of mourners at Uhuru Park, yesterday.

This is a common chant performed during the funeral of a Luo King (Ker) especially during the ‘Tero Buru’ ritual. This chant reminds one of a character, Unoka, in Chinua Achebe’s book Things Fall Apart who always said that whenever he saw a dead man’s mouth he saw the folly of not eating what one had in one’s lifetime.