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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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NEGLECTED CALABASHES

Before nylon papers, jericans and silos were invented to spoil the soil, there were magical calabashes that stored everything that needed to be stored for livelihood. Guards were used to fetch water, ferment alcohol, store cereals, preserve milk and scoop things that can be scooped among other things. Different species of the same acted differently. A liquor guard had its trunk cut below to make sure that straws are well served and can be easily cleaned by entering the hand in. It was also of enlarged hips. They may have preceded pottery because of their lightness, availability and longevity if well kept. Different lids to make items safe from micro-organisms were used- a banana bud or a maize corn. They now lie neglected in the old grannary.

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