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ORIGINS OF THE VARIOUS LUO SUB-COMMUNITIES I cannot blame the children who don't know their mother-tongue and care less about the fact that they don't, irrespective of what ethnic group. To me, that is the responsibility of parents to start teaching their children their ethnic language as they are learning to talk. It is so unfortunate that many opt to speak to our children in English and Kiswahili, yet these languages can be taught elsewhere outside the home, whereas our local languages are not a part of the Kenyan school curriculum. If parents don't bother teaching and speaking to their children in their mother-tongue, children will never understand how important it is to learn it and majority will not take the initiative to learn and embrace it because if it was important in the first place, they would have been taught. And to that I add, it's 100% advantageous, no disadvantage. With learning the language comes understanding ones heritage better as the history becomes more rich and understandable when learnt using the local language. Otherwise, the downfall as this is the current trend, is loss of our language and culture in the future generations to come. So as parents, if our responsibility is not carried out, then let's all say oriti to what makes us luos. But the good news is that LUOCOME has come up with an idea. Tho!!!! Nyar Ugenya Joluo.com Akelo nyar Kager, jaluo@jaluo.com |
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