Paul Mbuya Aoko’s Life.
Paul Mbuya akoko was born around 1891 in karachuonyo. South Nyanza. He served as paramount chief and also as member of east African legislative assembly. He believed in both Christianity and Lou traditional religion. He married two wives and had several children. In 1938, he published in Lou language, Luo Kitgi Gi Tembegi (Luo customs and habitats). At the time of his death in 1981, he was the “Ker” (ultimate moral or spiritual leader) of the luos.

RELIGION and the concept of God
He believed that long time ago, there were no denominations or factions in matters of religion. The luo regarded nyasaye (God) as omnipresent. People turned to him or help in all manner of ways. For example, the person going to war would appeal to nyasaye to help defeat his enemy. Where he was victorious, he concluded that it was all due to the favourable disposition of nyasaye. The interesting thing here is that the vanquished also expected the help of the same nyasaye. Now, when a patient recovered from his illness, he acknowledged the help of nyasaye. He believed also that there was, in addition, an element of luck but that it was nyasaye who brought luck his way.
People acknowledged nyasaye and so when they rose in the morning, they looked at wang chieng (the face of the sun) for god was thought to reside there as one might expect an occupant of a house. The sun was therefore believed to be capable of acting the role of an intermediary between people and god. Thus, people showed the palms of their hads to the face of the sun in supplication. Now, as the sun set in the west, people would look directly at it saying “set well so that no evil thing befalls us”. During this period, religion was not fragmented and so there were no dominations or factions. People recognized one nyasaye which in my opinion is the correct attitude.
Mbuya akoko also believes that we all have the same God even though we have different religions. he demonstrated his simply by pointing at the rather pedestrian fact that nature is uniform. He says that the existence of many gods would have resulted in “pulling” the universe in different directions: this takes care of any possibility of their existing pantheon of gods.

EQUALITY on Sexes
Paul Mbuya a lou fom Kenya states that “ a man has the physical capacity to run faster than a woman. But on the other hand, a woman has the physical capacity to undergo the pains of carrying and bearing a baby which a man lacks. So we cannot correctly say one is superior or inferior to the other… in truth… the two sexes are naturally equal or balanced.
Life and Death
Mbuya Akoko says that “without death, life would have little or no significance and yet death is not the antithesis of life, but its climax”.
Although at death, life is lost. They did not accept the idea that a dead man was lost. Their belief was that a dead person was only asleep and was alive in another place. Thus, the deceased was sent on an errand to other person (s) who had preceded him to the great beyond. The lou believed that a dead man acquires the capacity to see and communicate with others in the spirit world, Thus, if a person who was a good person died, people were happy on account of the fact that the deceased had the capacity to affect the spirit world for good.

Source: Sage Philosophy: Indigenous Thinkers and Modern Debate on African Philosophy