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Amasika

English: Funeral

Mourning period after death; relations and friends pay visits of sympathy; food provided

Wanga · KE

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Pre-colonial context

“Funeral rites and mourning periods are deeply significant in Luhya culture.”

In other languages

Swahili

Also msiba

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