Come back home Professor!

How come all those Years Ngugi has been mayuu he has never developed an accent, yet @ kiash 1 year later he couldn't understand kiswahili?

Accent is not a problem for as long as you know how to switch to make yourself understood without looking down at those you are talking to. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf the president of Liberia does it effortlessly, one minute she is speaking like the Havard graduate that she is, the next she speaks the pidgin Liberian English like a local market woman. Uhuru speaks English like an Elite, Kiswahili like a mwananchi and Kikuyu like a Wangige matatu tout.

There is a certain Akorino family in Texas that still wears their vilemba. When they come home and their Texas bred children speak at the Akorino conventions, they speak deeper and more fluent Kikuyu than their Kenyan counterparts. In Texas the children speak with a Texas accent and recently one of their daughters started working for a community that deals with Spanish speaking people because of her fluency in Spanish.....

Mayuu-ans acquire accents to fit in. Those who bring them home have esteem issues something to do with their jobs/status in mayuu

He had some interesting viewpoints... he validates my worldview of the 'tribe' thing we keep on labling ourselves. Why not say 'the Luo People', 'The Luhya Nation', 'The Kikuyu Community' or even at least 'The Kamba ethnic group'? or just call them 'The Luo...'? Why do we have the notion of 'Tribe'? tribe is a bunch of people in a forest somewhere under some chief who has some skulls around his neck.

Kumbe pia wewe Tycho ni mgenge?

where does tribe end and "people/community/nation/ethnic group" begin? are the Kurds a tribe? what makes the swedish a group of people with 9 million people more a 'nation' than the zulus who are 11 million?

Really??.. ...Who taught you that?

Why did they attack Ngugi and wife the first time he came back,and of all the place's at Norfolk?

agreed, Kalenjin and Luhyas are much recent groupings by the mzungu. My beef is the use of the terms "Tribe".... perhaps the best definition of what "Tribe" is "those which have followed ways of life for many generations that are largely self-sufficient, and are clearly different from the mainstream and dominant society.". For sometime the El Molo were a 'Tribe' but they are no longer that - they are now embracing ways of life similar to "the mainstream and dominant society". As soon as you wear clothes like everyone else, speak kiswahili like everyone else i.e. mainstream ways of life you end your tribal stature. You may be Ethnically Kikuyu but there is no such thing as the Kikuyu tribe now, or the Luo tribe.

exactment!! and it's even worse when you do the same to yourself!