We were all shocked when the Confederation of African Football (CAF) banned Kasarani Stadium late last year from hosting international games as the stadium "lacked several Caf criteria and requirements in order to properly host international senior competitions.." Before we could even recovered from the shock, FIFA followed suit and banned the country - for different reasons - from participating in any international games. It must have come as a shock to many, but we should have seen all these coming. Kenyan football has flirted with danger for so long and it has finally caught up with us. Kenya's football administration has been nothing but a joke recently. Our elite, top tier league is non-televised, and until recently, lacked a sponsor. Think about that for a second. Think about it again. Nigerian Premier League, South African Premier Soccer League, the Ethiopian League and even Zambian Premier League is beamed all over the continent for fans to enjoy. Even the third ...

Let me admit it upfront; most Luo names begin with the letter "O". Onyango, Otieno, Odhiambo, Okoth.. and the list goes on. The unwritten law in Luoland is that male names begin with "o" while female ones begin with "a". So many names conform to this norm that one may be excused to think that there are no names that don't. Far from it. They may be rare - and may even seem outdated - but there are indeed Luo names that do not conform to this unwritten law. And there aren't few. And I dare say they used to be more common then their "o-counterparts" in the past.  The fact that most people living day have grandfathers and great grandfather bearing the non-o variation is a testament to the fact that the non a/o names were more common in the past than they are now. Another fact that support this theory is the names of places and clans (which are obviously named after patriarchs) normally bear names that do not necessarily begin with "o...