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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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For where do you search?

One evening,an old woman was searching for something on the streets outside her small hut. The sun was setting,slowly, slowly, darkness was descending.
A few people gathered.
They asked her, "What are you doing? What have you lost and what are you looking for?"
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She said, " I have lost my needle."
The people said, "Now the sun is setting and it will be very difficult to find the needle,but we will help you. Where exactly has it fallen? Because the road is big and the needle is so small. If we know the exact place it will be easier to find it."
Rabya,the old woman said, " It is better that you don't ask me that question- because in fact,it has not fallen on the road at all,it has fallen inside my house."
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The people started laughing and they said, "We have always thought that you were a little insane! If the needle has fallen inside the house,then why are you searching on the road?"
Rabya said," For a simple logical reason: Inside the house there is no light and on the road,a little light is still there."
The people laughed and started dispersing.
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She called them back and said,Listen! That's exactly what you are doing; I was just following your example. You go on seeking bliss,happiness,joy,contentment and fulfilment in the outside world without asking the first and primary question: where have you lost it. And I tell you,you have lost it inside.
This lady must have been bright!
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Son of the Soil,
Zack Kinuthia

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