Why Luos Married(s) Many Wives: Understanding Polygamy in African Society — Luo People to be Precise.

Ramogi Okello K’Amimo
10 min readAug 5, 2020

The origin of independent/nativistic churches in Africa came as a result of many issues, including the lack of leadership opportunities for native Africans in the Western-styled missionary churches. One of the most prominent conflicts between Christianity and basic Luo traditional tenets was tied around cultural practices like initiation, age-set system, and marriage.

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