[KILL PROPAGANDA]

It is not just in Kenya that there is some form of Luophobia. Virtually every country in East Africa except Tanzania has gone through phases of Luophobia. Museveni in Uganda is constantly afraid because he knows that Luo-speaking tribes are the majority in Uganda and if there were democratic elections, he would easily lose to a Luo Candidate. That's why he will never end that war in the north. This is the same reason he is scared of a Raila presidency in Kenya and engineered the assasination of Garang in Sudan.

The worst case of Luophobia though happens to be in Ethiopia where the government of Ethiopia is literally running a reign of terror in the Gambela region which is mainly inhabited by Luokspeaking Anuak people. This mini-genocide has generally been ignored because Meles Zenawi was a Bush and Clinton favourite. Soon things will start to unravel for him.

Even in Kenya, it is not only Kikuyus who can be accused of Luophobia. During Kenyatta's rule massive resorces were invested in propaganda to demonise Luos. This is when all those stereotypes about Luos were circulated. The government sponsored propagandists were not even creative enough to invent their own stereotypes, they just copied the same lines used by whites in America and South Africa against blacks.

Many of these stereotypes had generally been disproved and people didn't talk about them anymore. Until the referendum 2005 and elections 2007 were generally percieved as Luo-Kikuyu contests when propagandists fished into the archives and revived these myths.

Many of the folks who propagate these stereotypes do not even believe them. They just stick to them for political reasons. What scares these people to death is the thought of a trans-national Luo movement influencing events in Sudan, Ethiopia, Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. They will stop at nothing to make sure no Luo ever leads any of these countries. What they hadn't bargained for was that a Luo would be president of America of all places. This explains the initial support both Hillary and McCain had in Kenya and Uganda.

Their fears are unfounded though, Luo people in Ethiopia, Congo and Tanzania are just not numerous enough to be a political force. Even in Kenya and Sudan, Luos cannot singularly win an election without an alliance with other peoples unless Southern Sudan secedes. Neither can they dominate the countries to the exclusion of others, they just don't have the numbers for that. The only country where this could happen is Uganda, hence the reason Museveni is constantly losing his head at the mention of the word Luo.