Embodiment Of Hope: Life Story Based On Luo Culture And Customs

EMBODIMENT OF HOPE is Omolo family's footprints on the sands of time based on Luo Culture, Luo customary law and marriage laws Customs. The book investigates the circumstances and experiences of Erasto Omolo family, a remarkable family from Kodero Bara Village in Kenya. There are powerful stories of four widowed women, Ogola Ngare, Flora Omolo, Esta Omolo and Damaris Omolo and their relationships with men in the patriarchal Luo society. The book continues to explore the life philosophies of these widows in leviratic unions . The testament begins with the story of one On'gele Abuka, Erasto Omolo biological father and the first peacetime warrior from the clan to join the KAR Army to fight in World War I, a war he did not know anything about. On'gele Abuka would retire from service to a victorious welcome in his village of Kodero Bara Village, where hits on a lot of widowed women and he would leave a mark as the village Casanova. In his courtships among women, he would sire a son, Erasto Omolo, out of leviratic union with Ogola Ngare. Erasto, impressed by his father's war-time stories, would be second peacetime warrior. Erasto Omolo joined the British Colonial Army to fight in the World War II, but unlike his father, he is deployed in a faraway place called Burma and in his Diasporic exposure, he instead got more interested in the White man's civilization, their lifestyle and education, which he readily adopted and blended with his Luo culture. As a result, Erasto Omolo receives training in the army gains a career in the British Colonial administration. The testament ends with the story of Ong'ele Abuka's grandsons, included in the book is Edward Omolo's footprints on the sands of time and other members of his family, who have turned into a peacetime book and pen warriors in the Diasporas.