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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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MOON; 26/08/2015

 View at University of Portsmouth Library at 20:18 United Kingdom time.

The moon had increased of its shape to a perfect gibbous. In the sky it sat late in the East. It seems that as it grows bigger it verily takes longer to reach the West. And now that I am too unpredictable and impatient I was not be able to observe its set in the West.

I had no camera. It is not mine. I use the organisation's. A fellow volunteer had taken with it to the field and I'd waited for her to come back in the day but she could not. If I knew it would go to this extend of missing the pictures I'd have denied her. But I asked her to take the moon picture for me. I doubt if she did. It is hard to get people interested in what they have no taste to.

From the previous moon in my condition I did not get better. I was worse in the day trying to be strong but when the evening came, I was too weak. I shopped for supper and went in more lonely and sad. It is good to live solely sometimes. It is so unwelcomed other times. I continued to be sick.

When I was rolling East and West on the bed with a hot gaseous stomach- probably a result of the medication, I went to Facebook. It is not in my doing to be glued online in the night. When a toad jumps in the daylight know that someone is after its life. Just then I was tagged in John Mwangi's moon picture. Oh Happy long sick night!

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