Luos fall among groups of Kenyans who remain deeply rooted in their traditions, passed down to them by their fore fathers and mothers.
However, with time, they have droppped some of these teasitions off for various reasons.
Here are some of the practices which are hardly practiced nowadays among members of the community.
1. Sigana
These were traditional stories told to children by grandparents, around the fire, either before bedtime or in waiting for the supper.
However, these are no longer there as the grandparents themselves, especially men, arrive home already tired after blowing their days playing "Ajua" at the village center.
After a whole day of playing "kingi ruka", a corruption of King and ruka (jump) for the game of checkers, most even retire to bed long before the children in the homestead.
2. Dwar
Dwar is the Luo word for hunting, another tradition that was practiced by boys, both for fun and for hunting skills, after which they would return home with antelope or hare meat.
However, thanks to the invasion of education, which has taken up almost all their time, and western civilization, this tradition is no longer widely practiced.
The reduction of forest cover and destruction of most bushy areas for establishment of settlements has also interfered with the habitat of the preys.
3. Sero
This was a medical practice where one's body was slightly cut using a sharp object and medicinal substances put in both as treatment or to prevent a number of things.
Among those which were prevented using this technique were medical conditions passed through eye, or Juok in Luo, a situation where a possessed woman passes an imaginary disease to a child while eating eating.
But thanks to the coming of western mode of healthcare and immunization, such are rarely practiced nowadays, with sero scars only visible on older members of the community nowadays.
But at the same time, Sero doubles up as the other Luo word for 'seducing'.