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The struggle with many a rigid Logooli cultural practices

  The Logooli community is one of the deeply cultured societies – with near everything supposed to have been done as per custom – to allow another custom to follow. One example is that for a mature man (with a child or more) to be buried, there must be a house structure at home. Another is that a boy must be circumcised and nursed in father land. If maternal family decides to, the boy will have a hard time reconnecting with father people - a dent on his masculinity. There were two children who got burnt to death in a house in Nairobi. The single mother had left for night work. Elders were told that one of the children was Logooli. The other, the woman had sired with someone else. The Logooli family wanted to burry their little one and long discussed the do’s and don’ts. Of a man who died childless and the grave was placed as if he had died as a man with children. It should have been dug on the sides, the grave. A real thorn should have been thrust in his buttocks, his name go...

Mzee Ojwang was thrown

A story is told
Of a famous comedian
Who was thrown by his people
In a public cemetery.

50 years in the Industry
And all he could invest in
Was his nickname, Mzee Ojwang.

His name erected to the sky
And was adored by the highest bidders
He drunk from both the old and new
Puffed in the dry and the wet
And so his grave was not virgin.

In hospital, walls were his companion
At his rented home, no politician went
The public knew it was pneumonia
On his death day, every ear heard
The famous comedian has slept.

If he had children, he lacked sons
If he had a family, he lacked brothers
If he had women, he lacked a wife
If he had friends, he lacked companions
For the shame we saw is unheard of.

His proverbial soul rests
Among many unknown souls
Where urchins are deposited
When they succumb a a mob.

Picture Source: Jeff Koinange Facebook wall

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