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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...

DISLIKE: As many likes you have been receiving, expect dislikes.

Mark Zuckerberg has to accept what the customers prefer. It is unwelcome to ‘edit’ your work to include or omit things that you do not stand for. But Mark, as he accepts ‘other positive changes’, he should also accept ‘other changes’. It boils the bowels to find that a CBO you started is wrangling over an issue and you can’t do a thing (or can do little) simply because the dunderheads subscribed reward goodness with challenge and have some rights.

As we impatiently wait for the button so that we may propagate our rational and irrational endeavours, I am pessimistic that the button will soon lose its meaning. Reasons as to why people are calling for the button is curiosity- that made Eve pluck the fruit. Because we don’t have it and never seen it in use, then let us introduce it. We know that we will handle the consequences. But that will add menu to the idling internet- instead of us discussing promiscuity, let us see which posts received the highest dislikes and why. It will give the like button a life.

The like button has been an orphan who can be easily manipulated for any gains. Some have liked burial posts because they are too tired to write their condolences. If you ask them, their answer is ‘recognition’ of the post. Weird posts like promiscuity and hanging breasts have lacked a way to engage among the haters…if they comment they will seem stupid when others see their activities; and liking is not an option. 

In a political world voters will dislike as many posts of an opponent. This will mean that a politician will regulate the likes and dislikes on a post. They may advocate doing away with the button- politicians are politicians. Obama will be disliked by radical republicans who see no good in whatever post. To some, they will confuse which button to click- dislike will be the confused on.

This may not make Facebook as interactive as such. It will lower the heavens to the Earth. It has been a good place where all the selfies and Public Relations have flourished. The ugliest in persons have plastered themselves pretty yellow. The poorest in spirits have been writing inspirational quotes for the ‘poorest most’.
Few people get concerned with important posts. Many are lured by ad verecundiam that fallasizes that the one in authority may be speaking the right thing. That is why celebrities and politicians are duplicated responses- You are the best! I doubt whether the infamous will start receiving dislikes if so there was nothing to like in their posts.

There may also be a people who will be coed not to express themselves well in fear of being ‘disliked’. The more contradictory one is, the risky. You will not be a chauvinist and be allowed to scot free- dislikes will bombard you. This will affect socialization because when people talk without thinking of consequences, they talk real. That can make us learn a few things. Instead of openness, there will be under table socialization. It may only take a single post to have a reputation leveled down to sea level by clicking the upside-down thing.

To me, nirvana is about to end when it comes to social media. There are people who are not suited for Earth where the rule of the jungle is the golden path and there may be another invention for them.  It may be the start of the end of Facebook.
 
This will keep us idling in talk for sometime.


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