How Luos translate - overhead at a crusade in Kisumu

12 Apr 2014

Evangelist: Bwana Asifiwe.

Translator(Omondi): Opak Ruoth.

Evangelist: Jioni ya leo…

Omondi: E midhiambo ma kawuono ni…

Evangelist: (whispers to Omondi that translation should be in English)

Evangelist: Bwana Asifiwe...

Omondi: May kudos of profound, holy equivalence be directed to The Man Above.

Evangelist: Ama kwa kweli…

Omondi: With all the exact measures of honesty…

Evangelist: …sio shaka bali ni furaha ilioje….

Omondi: …an element of delight just rendered dysphoria a vague entity.

Evangelist: kuona siku ya leo.

Omondi: a manifistation of which our prolific existence is still succulent under this forecast.

Evangelist: ikiwa ni tarehe moja ya mwezi wa kwanza wa mwaka mpya.

Omondi: a forecast whose numerical identity is a silent co-efficient of itself,corroborating the genesis of a new annual re-birth per se.

Evangelist: Ebu tualike wana kwaya wetu kwanza watuburudishe kabla kuendelea na ibada.

Omondi: Jokwaya oingie kwansa kabla yalo.

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