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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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FIKISHA; You can easily take a grown up from the street than a young one.

My question to Frank, the Director Fikisha, was, 'Can't this young boy receive a few strokes of cain to school?' He lowly laughed and corrected. My rural upbringing often drives me to the use of a cane (by a superior) to instil purpose in a young one. Things fell apart long ago.

The young boy- of about 12- had come into the rehabillitation program late hence missing the day's topic failitated by Alyssa, the creative Director from USA. To blame them is like blaming an African who comes to the meetings late. There is a song among the luo that 'If I come to your home early is as if I slept there...If I come late is as if I wanted not to come'. The funny fact is that the boys are not driven by time. What a freedom! They are driven by the weather, light and darkness. As long as they can see their shadows- no matter the length- they know it is day. They coming to the meeting late meant that there was still a sun overhead. 

'We can spot a child who can change', continued Frank. 'They always tend to be neat than others and orderly. To such the problem is poverty at home', he said while pointing to a child five metres away. A child who leaves home for the street should be quickly reported because after some time the child may never see the advantage of family homage. The young one may be more curious for street life- something good that he yearned for as he left home. If you think they are regretting for being in  the street you are wrong.

Freedom from family ties- there are families that children would want to run away from- takes them there. Not all come from poor backgrounds. The other post has them related to landlords and well-off families who are just waiting for them to knock off and rush them to rehabilitation centres. They know the love of money and how to live with least conditions- things that teachers tighten nuts on. 

And so if you would want to rescue a street, chose the one with maximum street life for the one with least experience of a life yearned for may be that child who stabs the backs of foster parents.

Thank You.



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