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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...

People lose their hearts

People lose their hearts
When they grow big
For when I board the public bus
To go learn A B C D
I am expected to pay for the seat.

Were it not for the uniform
I'd not stand in between the seats

The different men and women
Whom I daily see
Are neither mothers nor fathers
To my friends at school
For if they trully were
One could let me rest on laps
By the window
And count the moving tall buildings
1 3 5 7

But see how they squeeze me
Backsitters rushing to alight first
My 8 year old body in between
Threatening to be crashed
Carrying the only heart around.

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