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LUO RHUMBA AND LOVE

When it comes to the description of love and romance, Luo rumba artistes seem to hit new levels of absurdity with each passing day (or song tittle, should I say?). They have a panoply of phrases and song or album tittles, some of which are just ludicrous if not crazy (we'll sample some of them here for good measure). In their best attempt to answer the age-old question, "What is love?" they've only succeeded in confusing themselves and their listeners. Or maybe it is just intended to be funny, in which case they're doing a really good job.   Non-Luo speakers who enjoy Luo rumba, may think that all Luo rumba songs are in praise of women. This may be true to an extent but not entirely so. A lot of it is the ever green theme of a want away lover. Some artistes praise politicians, others revile them and the rest is nothing but a wretched gabble of revilement of love itself. Their idea of romance never goes beyond crying and complaining about a run-away or want-away l...