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The Kamnara of Sakwa are making ground to build for future generations

Greetings from the Kamnara of Sakwa! The Kamnara people of Sakwa on 27th December 2024 gathered at Village Park, Ajigo (near Bondo). Hosted by Kwaka Joseph, they hearkened to the consultative forum call, arriving in good numbers and early enough for a successful day. The gathering was chaired by Mr. Nying’ro James Onyango, a former (retired) assistant commissioner of Police. The introductions were excellent. The genealogies were mentioned in reverence, lengthy ones applauded. And courtesy of Enos Oyaya’s book, “Kamnara my people”, anyone who would need help had the documentation. Oyaya had launched the Kamnara book on 30th December 2022 at his home in Kamnara Mwalo, an event that gathered Vakamnara from far and wide. “What can we do that the generations to come will benefit from?” This was the clarion Mr. Kwaka Joseph called on all to fashion their minds to. And issues were raised in the fields of Education, health, agriculture, enterprise, politics and more that the swift dholuo would...
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I'm Lumadi. And he is a Lumadi. A problem?

-: Good evening family.
I have a few issues I'd like to ask older members of the group to help me clarify.
I have been with this nice Musuva gentleman for a while but two things are troubling us:
1.I am called Lumadi.The name is prominent in my extended family.We inherited it from our great-grandma who is a Musuva.
-That Lumadi name is also prominent in their family.They got it from their great-grandma who is a Munondi.
When his relatives hear I am called Lumadi they claim we could have a distant common ancestor thus related somehow.
2.I mentioned my paternal great-grandma is a Musuva.Well my maternal great-grandma is a Musuva too.
While I prefer we just keep quiet about my great-grandmas being Wasuvas,he wants to know early enough(well it's not realy early) if my being called Lumadi and the Wasuva ancestory of my great-grandmas are issues big enough to cause potential conflict with wazees.

-: Not really. Hapo kitambo it would have been an issue but not any more. My dad was mwifa mnondi and in the 80s I'd been told I could get a thing going with vanondi but I'm now told this got scrapped recently allowing one to marry ivwifa womwivuri weve. I stand to be corrected

-: 👆🏾Wako wapi wataalam? When I die..."woooih God forbid" ... can my own sister/cozin marry my widowed hubby? There is no similar blood vein in them. LUos marry sister the Mara shun the act. IF aviifa both sides can now marry, so whats the big deal with my sister?

-: Imijiru still remain imijiru. Now, if you are to get married where your grandparents are uncled, this is allowed if they are dead. I do not want to invoke Luo culture here because some of their practices are Maragoli taboos.
Some of our practices are biblically supported. I stand to be corrected here.

-: If you read Leviticus 18, you find Isrealite abominations that are similar to ours. Besides, the marriage prohibitions show that kinship bonds are strong. You are therefore to get married to someone who is not related to you by blood. If you ask me, Avalogooli had a very good system of checks and balances. The fact that one got married to a clan or family where there were no blood ties ensured proper offspring with a small fraction of some genes that run in some families. If two asthmatic related families got married, what would be their offsprings like?

We need to interrogate this subject further so that our youth make informed decisions. I rest my case.

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