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I traveled from Kenya to Uganda to meet my Ugandan Luo brother from Acholi Mr. Okoth. We did the interview along river Nile using our mother tongue. #Luo #Kenya #Uganda #Acholi #nile
This marks the beginning of my long journey to find my Luo brothers and sisters in Nigeria, Eritrea, Chad, Cameroon, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Central African Republic (CAR).
The Luo are a Nilotic group of people who migrated from Bahr-el-Ghazal in Southern Sudan, and settled in the western part of Kenya in areas around Lake Victoria. They arrived into this part of East Africa from as early as the 15th century to the 19th century. They arrived in various groups:
The Joka Jok arrived in the 15th century and settled at Ramogi hill, Sakwa, Asembo and Alego.
The Joka Owiny led by Owiny Sigoma came in the 17th century and settled around Kisumu, Nyakach and South Nyanza.
The Joka Omolo came into Kenya from Busoga in Uganda in the 18th century. They settled in Samia, Yimbo, and South Nyanza where they joined the group that had arrived earlier.
The last group to arrive was the Luo-Abasuba who arrived from Uganda in the 19th century, and settled in Rusinga and Mfangano islands in Lake Victoria. They are a mixture of Bantus and Luos.
The Luo probably originated at Wau in southern Sudan, near the confluence of the Meride and Sue Rivers. The Luo migrated into western Kenya via today’s eastern Uganda, the first wave arriving sometime around 1500AD.
Oral traditions reveal that the Southern Luo (the Luo of Kenya and Tanzania) descended from early fishing, agricultural and herding communities from western Kenya’s early pre-colonial history and dialects of their language have historic roots across the inter-lacustrine region. Besides their language has incorporated Bantu words making it different from the Ugandan Luo dialects, Dholuo is the mother tongue of the Luo community. There is only one major Luo dialect in Kenya, with minor variations of Luo language especially between the Alego / Ugenya / Gem locality, known as Trans Yala dialect by socio-linguist, and the standard Dholuo dialect which is largely spoken by the rest of the Luo people in Kenya and the neighboring Tanzania.
Uganda is home for Luo ethnic groups of (1) Acholi, (2) Adhola, and the assimilated Luo groups of (3) Lango and (4) Kumam. It is also assumed to be the possible first entrance that Luos of Sudan used to further migrate to Kenya, Tanzania and the Democratic republic of Congo.
Dispersion from the Nilotic homeland in South Sudan was presumably triggered by the turmoils of the Muslim conquest of Sudan.
Education is highly valued among the Luo, and they are well represented in the professions.
The Luo-speaking peoples include the following sub-groups:
1. Shilluk/ Ochollo - South Sudan / Ethiopia
2. Anuang’/ Anywaa - Ethiopia / South Sudan
3. Maban - South Sudan / Chad
4. Thuri / Shatt - South Sudan
5. Blanda Bor - South Sudan
6. Funj - South Sudan
7. Pari - South Sudan
8. Bari - South Sudan
9. Jumjum - South Sudan
10. Joluo / Jur Chol - South Sudan
11. Acholi - Uganda / South Sudan
12. Kumam - Uganda
13. Chope - Uganda
14. Tooro - Uganda
15. Lang’i - Uganda
16. Jonam - Uganda
17. Jo-Padhola - Uganda
18. Alur - Uganda / DRC / Cameroon
19. Suba Luo - Kenya
18. Joluo - Kenya / Tanzania
The Luo-speakers alongside the Dinka (Jieng’) and the Nuer (Naath) form part of the Jii-speakers.
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