Why Kikuyu men rarely marry from Luo Nyanza

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While Kikuyu women are all praises about their Luo dates, the same is not the case with Kikuyu men. You will stay for several elections before you are invited for a ruracio (bride price ceremony) starring Kamande out to marry Akinyi.

Evans Karuku explains that Kikuyu men find it harder to marry Luo women out of belief systems, one being that Luo women are lazy while Kikuyu women are known to be hardworking and most thus confined themselves within GEMA communities (Gikuyu, Embu, Meru and Akamba) who are all Bantus.