Wife, widow inheritance is not Luo culture

There is no such thing as widow or wife inheritance in Luo tradition   Photo: Courtesy

If Timex Social Club were a Kenyan band, the opening lines of their hit song Rumours would not have been that rumours are started by “the jealous people and/ They get mad seein’ somethin’ they had and somebody else is holdin’...”.

Instead, Michael Marshall, Marcus Thompson, Samuelle Prater and Alex Hill could have discovered that in Kenya, rumours are started by ignorant ill-educated people who think with their fingers and hide behind computer screens or mobile phones.