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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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It is a granary that comfortably hosts guests.

Sometimes back (and now), the structure you see was a home to my mother(the one you see). The improvisation on the structure has brought in the iron sheets and nails to join timber. It used to keep them high above ants, predators and the below space would be for poultry and young animals. The reason that it is raised on  everlasting stone beams prevents the structure from corrosive ants. One can easily spot their presense and rub them off. As for more about it, let the picture intrigue your thoughts.

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