DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2018.v06i06.010

Pages: 1245-1257

Like many other African patrilineal societies, the Luhya had a culture where they shared customs, values and distinctive way of living that constituted them as a recognizably distinct human group or society. Through their culture, which was closely validated and regulated, social relations as witnessed in their social, political, economic and spiritual arrangement, they were able to perpetuate and develop their knowledge and their attitudes towards life. This was essentially preserved, propagated and transmitted from one generation to another. This article attempts to show the Luhya social, political, economic, political and spiritual organization. The study area was Busia District (currently Busia County). The study was based on both primary and secondary data collected for a period of two years. The study employed qualitative techniques of data analysis. The study found that all activities touching on social, political, education and economic activities were centered on God. These social structures gave them cultural unity and social cohesion and therefore a common world-view. It gave them a sense of common ethnic kinship, geographical unity and contiguity, a common historical experience and frame of political thought and economic mutuality.