What is more interesting is that cheaper cameras and smarter distribution models are producing videos tailored not just to colour or country but to tribe: Luo men want to see Luo girls, not Pamela Anderson.
The narrator and his friend Luo are banished to Phoenix of the Sky, a remote fairytale-like mountain village, to be "re-educated" by hauling buckets of excrement and toiling in mines nearby.
The immediate result was that tenants (mainly from the Luo tribe) started fighting landlords (mainly Nubians).
Many still hark back to the unexplained assassination in 1969 of Tom Mboya, another Luo they believe was destined for the presidency.
THE phrase "naked official", or luo guan, was coined in 2008 by a bureaucrat and blogger in Anhui province, Zhou Peng'an, to describe officials who have moved their family abroad, often taking assets with them.
Some think the money comes from Barack Obama: the American president's father was a member of the same Luo tribe.
"One community chopped off the sexual organs of another community," says Mrs Achieng, a Luo, whose leader, Raila Odinga, was reckoned by independent observers to have been cheated of victory.
Across the country came a swelling up of tribal violence, sometimes Kikuyu against Mr Odinga's Luo tribe, more often Luo and other tribes against Kikuyu.
The pages are filled with yearning.Another kind of flesh suffuses "Pow!": the village head is a notorious womaniser; Luo Xiaotong's father is eventually undone by his love for Aunty Wild Mule; half the village seems to be wearing "the green hat of a cuckold".
And the outside world tends to be viewed as a source of trouble.Indeed, for a great many people the way things are is pretty rotten: Burmese monks, for instance, or the Luo in Kenya.
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