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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...
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WHEN THE GAP IS BIG

Two steps and the camera could have gone. I do my best to hide the thing and put on a casual wear. When one of the two boys a whisper away asked me twenty shillings, I pretended to be busy and took the opposite way- I was heading where they were going. Confused, I accelerated slowly and took to a slow run as they shouted, 'utanyang'anywa hapo mbele'. Good that the place was deserted. As I thought of how I have been warned from using the road, Obama came in my mind. If so we will change- we who can hear- what about the people in the slums? The poor? The ignorant?

Later I had witnessed three men carrying a rather drunk than sick fellow. They staggered too. The government has of late been hard on the sell of illicit brews but not all hotspots have been visited. Evil lies in the furthest of corners where goodness may be hesitant to visit. More efforts are needed down there and the media should be in to this as it was on Obama's visit.




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