Am defending a paper on Luo Culture. I hope to get oppinions on whether the story in article below is influenced by cutlrue or the envirinment by the lake side. personally, i would argue its the environment. but my professor has challenged me to explain why the same does not happen in uganda and tanzania side of the lake or at the coast. Here is a passage form the paper.
Miriam is one such woman. She has two children and is widowed. She comes to the beach early in the morning and will be off by 11am. All she does is wait for a specific boat, get the day’s catch, sell some, carry home a little for lunch and then wait for a knock at the door of her rented house in the evening by the leader of the boat.

They will have sex and then he goes off for night fishing. This is the way she has kept her job for the last two years.

When six young men got off a motorboat at Remba Island from the mainland sometime back, all they had in mind was to fish for two months, sell some of their catch and bring the remainder back to the mainland once the two months was done. That was their plan, at least. They did not know that on the island was a group of old women who preyed on young men from far off places.

http://www.standardmedia...9;%20on%20the%20lakeside

What ties the title of the thread(in this case, your paper) to the story? And this doesn't look like a serious academic paper or have we changed the way we write academic papers these days? At least not the quality from someone from the lakeside...... Ask your predecessors... they would tear you apart with this! Ngai, i think i am ancient....

There are many arguments to defend that environmental impact to the lake culture (i wouldn't call it Luo Culture).... but put your abstract here, then we shall know whether what we are contributing makes sense in light of your title and abstract or not.

perhaps the conundrum here is the confusion of the terms
1. Culture
2. Traditions
3. Rites and customs


Culture is anything but stagnant! the culture of Luos in Nairobi is different from that of Luos in Bondo. The culture of Luos in Nairobi is similar to that of Kikuyus in Nairobi. The culture of Kikuyus in Nairobi is different from Kikuyus in Mashambani!

Here is the culture iceberg

before disputing my point have you sought to find out 'WHAT CULTURE IS?' Culture is an iceberg! what you think is culture is only 3% of what is known. Language is not culture! Let me ask a question. When in Shags Kyuk mamas meet on the road side and stop. Wanatoa ushuhuda and find out how each other is doing... the interaction takes 5 minutes or more. In those sub cultures you have pointed out - do people do exactly the same? there is no such thing as kikuyu culture - it was there but culture changes when people move to new places. What you mean is 'traditions' - mtu atazikwa aje? mtu ataoa wapi? e.t.c. cuisine is also part of culture! culture is what you do on a daily basis!
Do the kikuyus of Marietta, Worcester and Lowell have the same weight to religious matters as those of Muranga and Nyeri? Heck even the culture in Muranga and Nyeri maybe different. Culture is a thing that is dynamic and changing. Worldviews changing... status of things like what to do to unwedded pregnant women are pointers to this fact.

This was uncalled for. Very bad behavior kusomea watu ovyo ovyo! He would not be existing were his father not polygamous!

Wacha kucheka, it is true. The ritual is called golo kodhi. Read more about it here:

www.blog.cygopinath.com/...y/about-sorghum-and-sex/