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Chahilu’s Funeral; Logooli Culture in action

Guuga Chahilu was respectfully laid to rest at his home on Saturday 14th June 2025. Having passed on at Mbale Referral Hospital on 31st May 2025, the two weeks leading to his burial were full of cultural discussions. His passing on is a great loss to the Logooli Language and Culture Family as he was a custodian and informer of Luhya Indigenous Knowledge. An observation as to how the funeral proceeded leads us to revist Logooli traditions amidst modern realities.  One, having left the house alive and now coming back in state, Chahilu was to be taken inside the house, placed muihiilu for a moment and then officially taken out in wait for earth burial. His casket was able to enter the doors. There are cases where the dead would find it difficult to be taken in and then out due to an oversized casket or thin door. A man or a lady of his house who died out of home has to be taken in the house for a last ritual mark. But if the person had died inside, he or she would not be brought bac...
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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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