When in Kisumu, make sure you visit the museum

This brilliantly averted obvious petty jealousies bound to arise from a polygamous home.

“What if one wife felt that she wasn’t having the stool in her house often enough?” someone asked.

“Well, she would ask the first wife to intervene on her behalf,” said our tour guide.

“But what if the first wife didn’t like her, and made sure that her complaints did not reach their husband?” someone else insisted. The questions rolled on.

Suffice to say, ideally Kom Nyaluo was the seat that symbolised love and joy and also sustained life in a traditional Luo homestead. Literally and figuratively of course.

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