Predecessor | Multiple clan based unions |
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Successor | Gor Mahia FC |
Formation | 1920s |
Founded at | Nairobi, Kenya Colony |
Dissolved | 1980 |
Legal status | Defunct |
Purpose | [, foster and govern a broad cultural identity amongst Luo speakers in East Africa |
Headquarters | Kisumu |
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The Luo Union was a welfare organisation formed in Nairobi, Kenya, in the early 1920s. This organisation sought to create, expand and govern a general cultural identity among Luo people in East Africa. Luo people are a Nilotic ethnic group native to western Kenya and the Mara Region of northern Tanzania in East Africa. [1] The Luo Union was one of several welfare organisations started during the colonial period in East Africa which aimed at building broad cultural unity. This organisation played a crucial role in creating a collective sense of identity and unity amongst Luo people after the Second World War. It was also an important medium of grassroots political support for African Nationalist movements in the 1950s. The Luo Union FC was the unions soccer club. This club would later become Gor Mahia FC, one of Kenya's best performing football clubs.[2][3][4]
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