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Heavy responsibilities for elder aunt among the Logooli

With Seenge Fonesi. She is the elder grand daughter of Isagi and elder daughter of Amugasya. She is often present in functions involving the family of Amugasya. Pic taken on 18/4/2024. The elder sister soon becomes the elder aunt. It is this “seenge munene” (elder aunt) tag that she is tied to many cultural responsibilities – back home. To her marital family she may appear as any other woman, but she is not so in the eyes of her people. Marriage does not steal her away as it would happen with other daughters of the old man. To her, as days go and the old man and woman of the estate are dependents, she becomes increasingly present.  Her brothers also need her for almost all traditional markings. They are marrying, she needs to welcome the new wife. They are giving birth, she needs to come to midwife or “bless” the new born. They are paying dowry she needs to lead the women delegate. There is a conflict she needs to come for a hearing.  And many others. Traditions does not expect her to
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WHEN THE MISSIONARY ARRIVES

The group leader rushes
To take his bag
And lead him in

Participants stand
Breaking from a social talk
To show respect
To the entering luggage.

He greets the women around
Wondering where men went to
Knowing not
They most attend important meetings.

He sits by the window
Praying for more Oxygen
For he knows the face of the air inside
Is that of the faces around.

From their gazes
He reads tiredness
Yet he would still want to say it in a different way
What other Organizations have spoken to them
Before giving out the bread.

Half a century past independence
He thinks not of a reason
Why these very people
Will  get out of poverty.

He is a missionary
From Europe
And he loves his job
Working with the vulnerable

He knows they are sick
Lazy and pretentious
Beggars and barterers
 Yet benefactors from cardinal sources.

And he never learns
With such simple thoughts
That there are a people
That would better be desperate
Than be fortunate.


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