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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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In my previous life I was named Ikemefuna


The life of Ikemefuna is of wonder and sorrow- the blurry picture of people's past. The hope to live as we suffer in innocense sends us to explore illusions. The path that the elders and the boy with a pot on his head followed seems the decisions we make leading us to uncertainity. Just at the end of the path (horion rather), the boy was slain. He was to atone. Innocense on trial. We get born and get assimilated to the troubles of a society that we were not part of. And to what purpose do the pain and death glorify? gods. Gods we know little about- gods we created- gods that prevail in human weakness. But we shall live again. And again to recall our previous painful lives.

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