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Luo are more than merely linguistically related. They have a common ancestry as verified by their oral history and anthropologists. --Ezeu 09:11, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Being a Luo born of both Luo parents, and having had gone to school to read on various issues concerning life as a whole, I was amazed when a friend back in high school days (1989 - 1992)asked me about something that was likely to connect the luo to the original inhabitants of Egypt of the pharaonic era. Not so suprising since the Luo being nilotes (from the river nile) which has its long end at the exact place in Africa, i had no doubt about this. What amazed me was when he asked me what 'cairo' could mean in Luo. I told him it meant a place of smoke. He was surprised. It is known that this was a place that was ahead in civilization in those ancient times. Thus with all the much that goes with civilization including the construction of the pyramids and the artefacts that were all kingly and queenly, it very much was a place full of smoke. So i do strongly believe that Cairo has it's name from the Luo who originally called it "ka iro" (the place of smoke). Along the river nile, which the luo had to follow on their course downwards, trying to find the source of the river that provided life in their long time habitat. I wont talk much about the awe that was with the origin of the nile as most knew that it could be the dwelling place of the unknown or known god. they must have left a whole lot of marks. The only other significant place and mark that i know of is khartoum. Khartoum in luo language means a place of collision from the words "kar tuom". Is it not in khartoum that the white nile meets the blue nile, colliding to form the nile that goes to Cairo?. Its all about the nile, the most important article in the life of former Egyptians and the Luo as such. A concrete reason you will find the Luo within the nile's path to the origin of it which is Lake Victoria. A part of the luo might have followed it's branch to the Ethiopian highlands but were not satisfied as it had another branch that came from East Africa (the Lake Victoria) which is the home ground to most if not all the luo. Having had reached the source of the nile with nothing to fuss about and no god in sight, it just became another habitat fit for human settlement with lots of fish from the lake and cultivable land for sorghum, millet and cassava. Life goes on.

I am planning to do a thorough research on this.

Abdulrazzaq Adam Otieno (Formely: Rodgers Edward Otieno) Email: [email protected] Tel: +254 712 203 122 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.201.211.97 (talk) 14:57, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If anyone is interested, I was wondering whether we could work together to update the Kisumu page (before cleaning up the Nyanza province one epicenter of the Luo Community) which currently reads like a travel brochure, which is very undeserving for a leading town in East Africa. If possible could you constructively help me make it better, I am hoping to get together a work group of contributers to help out so that it is something close to the Nairobi page. I will be working on this for the next week or two, if you have some spare time I will be glad if you could help me open up Kisumu to the world. Thanks!--Krator1 (talk) 23:01, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

According to the book "The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family" by Peter Firstbrook, the main migration route to Kenya went from the Sudd marshes to Pakwach-Pubungu and Tororo in Uganda, entering the territory of current-day Kenya near Got Ramogi. The migration as it can be traced today took place from the 15th through 18th centuries, so I'm not sure how the Arab conquest is relevant (if the original Arabic conquest of 640 A.D. is meant). AnonMoos (talk) 04:45, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Are the luo Eastern Sudanic (a previous version of this article says they are Western Sudanic) or Western Nilotic, or both or one but not the other? Ezeu (talk) 21:40, 11 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Anonymous editors are adding lots of unsourced content. Anything that is not sourced can be deleted. Please do the work and add sources for your additions - whether facts from a census or content related to history. There are plenty of newspaper, and other accounts on the Internet and in books. Also, please register to establish a Talk page and join the Wikipedia community so you can be easier to communicate with.Parkwells (talk) 15:08, 4 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

According to the oral history of the Luo tribe, tribesmen can be impeached for miscegenation (ie; dirty breeding), the use of Agent Orange, and Crimes Against Humanity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.114.70.70 (talk) 19:25, 18 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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