RandomKit | Random data generation in Swift | iOS library

I have a cython extension module that uses a small subset of numpy.random. It works fine in 16.2

Now, apparently there has just been a major reorg of the numpy random module https://github.com/numpy/numpy/commit/d8e145743813545b11be1f588f4fedb88addf059#diff-51bde9aa0f8211110b1c0aabe79fec5b

While these changes are gentle on the python user, they completely break my cython code.

As far as I can tell, from 17.0 on:

1. The header randomkit.h is gone.
2. rk_* symbols are gone. (They used to be in mtrand.cpython-.so).

Questions:

1. Is my interpretation of the situation correct?
2. Any help with migrating (Pointers, suggestions)?

Here is a snippet of my code showing the old api and what little of it I'm using:

I'm trying to return random elements from an array with no repeated results, I haven't been able to find a solution for Swift 4.2 that uses the new RandomKit.

The current setup I have will return random titles for the "VowelFaceXX" IBOutlets, but will often repeat results. I want each IBOutlet to have a unique result.

I would also ideally like to be able to have more than 5 elements in the array at a later date, but staying with the 5 IBOutlets.

I have posted the code below:

Is there are more direct way to access the RandomState object created on import other than np.random..__self__? Both np.random._rand and getattr(np.random, "_rand") raise AttributeError. The former works fine but doesn't seem very transparent/Pythonic, though the most transparent might just be creating a separate RandomState object. The purpose is passing the interal_state variable to a cython function that calls randomkit functions directly.