RE: Has there been a decline or not

From: Churchil AUDI
churchil.audi AT gloucesTersHire dOt goV Dot Uk

This would make an interesting reading for joramogi, I came across this in my endeavour for some research work. Is this a discourses to postulate to be true, whenever you want the full copy I can avail it.

Regards,
Wuod jagem

---

The nature of decline:
Distinguishing myth from reality in the case of the Luo of Kenya
Lesa B. Morrison
J. Of Modern African Studies, 45, 1 (2007), pp. 117-142. f 2006 Cambridge University Press
Doi: 10.1017/S0022278X06002308 Printed in the United Kingdom

SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
Recent indicators strongly support the contention that poverty in Nyanza is indeed cause for great alarm. Luoland is doing quite poorly vis-à-vis other areas of Kenya. In addition, they bolster claims that the area has experienced grave decline. However, earlier indicators from a time of presumed Luo prowess paint a more complex picture, one more ambiguous than the story generally told. These require attention. They provide an opportunity both for understanding potential reasons for Luo perceptions, and for uncovering certain realities that may have been masked or ignored. When Luos have extolled their elites, they have apparently made assumptions about the entire community's well-being.

Focus on a few has resulted in the veiling of the condition of the many. When these few were not as perceptible, the realities of the majority were revealed, seemingly as a new phenomenon. The result was a people all too ready to follow the dictates of a communal narrative that gave external reasons for the fall they perceived, and to justify political behaviour to vindicate the sensed wrongs done to them.