[muawiyah]

You'll find that in the Arabian peninsula there are people who are known as "True Arabs". This was the cultural heartland of the territory where the Arabic language was developed.

There are surrounding groups who have been Arabicized.

Anthropoligists and historians differentiate between the two.

Then, there's a far larger group surrounding these people where Arabic is spoken. And beyond that, there's a vast territory where Classical Arabic is taught for the purpose of reading the Koran.

Members of the Luo tribe who are Moslem are simply part of the vast hinterland where Classical Arabic is taught for historical purposes.

Culturally the Luo are Luo!

The Luo also appear to have Negroid characteristics ~ nose, degree of pigmentation, shape of skull, hair structure.

[jamese777]

“You’ll find that in the Arabian peninsula there are people who are known as “True Arabs”. This was the cultural heartland of the territory where the Arabic language was developed.
There are surrounding groups who have been Arabicized.

Anthropoligists and historians differentiate between the two.

Then, there’s a far larger group surrounding these people where Arabic is spoken. And beyond that, there’s a vast territory where Classical Arabic is taught for the purpose of reading the Koran.

Members of the Luo tribe who are Moslem are simply part of the vast hinterland where Classical Arabic is taught for historical purposes.

Culturally the Luo are Luo!

The Luo also appear to have Negroid characteristics ~ nose, degree of pigmentation, shape of skull, hair structure.”

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Yes.
Arabic is a Semitic language and the Luo languages are in the Nilo-Saharan language family. Its like comparing English with Swedish.
The peoples of the Rift Valley-Lakes Region are about as classically and anthropolgically east African as one can get. The oldest fossil, artifact, and DNA evidence of homo sapiens on the planet comes from this region, according to the “Out of Africa” theory of human origins.

[Fred Nerks]

...The Luo also appear to have Negroid characteristics ~ nose, degree of pigmentation, shape of skull, hair structure.

Having recently read 'The White Nile' written by Alan Moorehead, published in the UK in 1960, I was reminded of Tippu Tib:

WIKI LINK:

His mother, Bint Habib bin Bushir, was a Muscat Arab of the ruling class. His father and paternal grandfather were coastal Swahili who had taken part in the earliest trading expeditions to the interior. His paternal great-grandmother, wife of Rajab bin Mohammed bin Said el Murgebi was the daughter of Juma bin Mohammed el Nebhani, a member of a respected Muscat (Oman) family, and an African woman from the village of Mbwa Maji, a small village south of the then German capital of Dar es Salaam.

I was surprised to find an image of Tippu Tib on the web. What might he represent? An African-Arab or an Arab-African?