Obondi Mganda and Oganga Agao in an artistic piece par excellence! I have translated the lyrics to give an idea of the mayhem this man wreaks with his terrifying command of dholuo and the art of story-telling with musical accompagniment. There is something called ‘PAKRWOK’, blowing ones own trumpet, and the nyatiti form in dholuo is heavily designed for maestros in this. And as the night grows and the liquer flows, the tendency towards obscenity increases. When the Whiteman arrived with his Holy Book to civilise Luo folks who worshipped Nyatiti, the first thing they did was declare nyatiti [both art form and practioners] evil, satanic and ungodly! Ofcourse nyatiti men, having heard of the new strange tale of the Holy Birth, let their imaginations run wild about the invicible penis of God etc etc. This was the stuff of blasphemy, and folklore records the most unrepentant nyatiti men were burried alive with their instruments in the religious purge/umfeqane. To this day, there are areas in Luoland where all girls pregnant outside wedlock are described as ‘having been visited by the invicible penis of God!’ in honour of the nyatiti maestro who coined that phrase and was yes, cruxified for it!
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Mani Obondi Diel Kamatara. En bende? ochano wer adimba.