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Okoth should have been buried next to his father

When an adult Luo man dies there is never any doubt as to his place of burial unless he or his father never built a home. [Standard]

All communities have their traditional cultures that they must strive to preserve for posterity, no matter how “civilised” they may deem to be. Living a borrowed lifestyle as result of colonisation does not mean that we lose our identity as a people.

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