The Luo, the ethnic community from which the US president, Barrack Obama’s father belongs, are the most politically conscious group in Kenya. Because of their desire for justice, they paid the utmost price for marginalization, political persecution and alienation since the nation’s independence from Britain 47 years ago. The writer describes their coping techniques as a thick outer crust for survival in a hostile political, social and economic environment.

Why do we almost always see divinity portrayed as a male human figure? Do animals also see divinity as male figures of their own species?