Dominic WALUBENGO
@waluwande
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Director: Forest Action Network. Author: A Short History of Desperation; Beginnings-My First 24 Years. Certified Professional Mediator. Co-Chair NECSA-Kenya..
Njoro, Nakuru County, Kenya
Joined June 2013
With a professor of forestry in The Espirito Santos State, Brazil.
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@waluwande Okay. I now understand why some Kisii's names are directly derived from Luo names. For Luhyas, its easily understandable through heavy assimilation and marriage.
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This is more than just four quarters. It’s every tailgate, every chant, every moment. It’s fuel that goes beyond the field. This is CELSIUS! LIVE. FIT. GO.
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@benKEofficial @waluwande We as a family have copies to donate to academic institutions and aspiring intellectuals
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Of course. Samias and Marachis resisted the Luo fighters.
@waluwande Samias in Busia are still near the lake daktari!
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@waluwande Last statement is interesting, of all the three luhya subtribes, the marachi are 'most luo' and Samia least.
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Quite correct.
@waluwande Luos arrived and found the lakeside already occupied but managed to push out Marachi & Samia from siaya county, pushed out Nandis from seme in kisumu county (it's still called seme lang'o today). Lang'o is a general term for kalenjins. Also pushed out Kisiis from Kano plains
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@waluwande @tmamimo Interesting. Lwanda Magere's mum was a Kisii. He lived around present-day Muhoroni in Kisumu County.
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Word of the Day: sheaf - The New York Times
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This word has appeared in 20 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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Thank you!
@waluwande I like how you are educating people. I am a luo and was surprised when I started seriously reading on the migration and settlement in EA and beyond.
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U.S. Navy Sailors killed in the Beirut bombing on October 23, 1983 HM1 Ronny K. Bates: Hospitalman First Class. HN Jesse W. Beamon: Hospitalman. HN Jimmy R. Cain: Hospitalman. HM3 William B. Elliott: Hospitalman Third Class. HM3 James E. Gaisthen: Hospitalman Third Class. ETC
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Thank you!
@waluwande Mzee, you’re rich with Kenyan history. I would like to one day meet you over a cup of coffee to imbibe from your pot of wisdom.
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@kel_vynne @waluwande Yap. Like their Dinka and Nuer cousins
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Superpowers for Superheroes. Today, we unveil EagleEye: the family of warfighter augments that place mission command & AI directly into the operator's helmet.
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@kel_vynne @waluwande We can also infer the luo kept livestock by the fact that people still living in present day Sudan and other related Nilotes.
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@waluwande Our brothers in S.Sudan Shilluk are still pastrolists, including Dinka and Nuer
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@waluwande Ngaii 😄 🤣 😂 😆 so in around 1800 the current kenya hata population haikuwa inefika 400k
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@TeresahAtieno @waluwande Proximity to water was due to plenty of pastures for their cattle & for farming. They adopted to fishing when their cattle were wiped out by diseases.
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Icarus International Consulting Group | The Long Memory of Institutions Every generation produces a new breed of leader — restless, ambitious, certain that they can outpace the machinery of institutions. They see the old order as obsolete, the bureaucracy as friction, and the
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Thank you!
@waweru @waluwande You should meet him in person, @waluwande is such a gentleman. Met him at Nairobi Club Tennis tournament with his grand children, such a vibe
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