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Colonialism was such a mind screw. To make matters worse, the folks who were around when the fix was being put in are on their last legs. This means that current and future Kenyan generations are either in a space devoid of culture, or feel compelled to observe cultural traditions without understanding their significance.
Over the past few months I’ve been unusually immersed in my own Luhya culture; unusually because it’s not often that I interact with my ethnicity on a functional level. It’s mostly during weddings and funerals that many of us are confronted by the demands of tradition because there are some cultural norms that must be observed when being married or buried. Failure to do so throws the proceedings into disarray.
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