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Heavy responsibilities for elder aunt among the Logooli

With Seenge Fonesi. She is the elder grand daughter of Isagi and elder daughter of Amugasya. She is often present in functions involving the family of Amugasya. Pic taken on 18/4/2024. The elder sister soon becomes the elder aunt. It is this “seenge munene” (elder aunt) tag that she is tied to many cultural responsibilities – back home. To her marital family she may appear as any other woman, but she is not so in the eyes of her people. Marriage does not steal her away as it would happen with other daughters of the old man. To her, as days go and the old man and woman of the estate are dependents, she becomes increasingly present.  Her brothers also need her for almost all traditional markings. They are marrying, she needs to welcome the new wife. They are giving birth, she needs to come to midwife or “bless” the new born. They are paying dowry she needs to lead the women delegate. There is a conflict she needs to come for a hearing.  And many others. Traditions does not expect her to
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Are you similarly experienced?

You wake up from a deep sleep, eight hours undisturbed, look sideways to see whether you are still in a familiar world and thereafter do a few tasks before chucking away. The young man, full of energy courageously crosses the road and Alas! ‘Where did I see this woman?’ The woman passes by and too conscious of the environment, my friend turns with a style to look back. Tapping his head for such a bad mind, he tends to move on just before he remembers where he was with the woman….in his sleep.

On Google, I went with the search of ‘condition of confusing something to another’. Google isn’t yet devolved, is it? I was taken to a medical list of herpes, skin diseases and other maladies that one would think most of us are sick. I know there is a term for it as there is anaesthesia where one stimulation can simultaneously attract another. You can see a bulb as danger or one’s mouth as an eye!


Before we find the term, let us use Wikipedia’s nearest term to the situation- mental confusion. It states ‘These refer to the loss of orientation or the ability to place oneself correctly in the world by time, location; and personal identity. Mental confusion is sometimes accompanied by disordered consciousness (the loss of linear thinking) and memory loss (the ability to correctly recall previous events or learn new material)’. It is not about delirium or such extent of a problem. It is about those small ‘lapse’ moments that come in between even the active of moments.

Have you not gone from the house singing to the end the song you were listening to? Has one song never taken the better part of your days? It does not matter whether you sung it well or not because when lyrics are hard, you can hum or whistle. Have you never withdrawn your curse word when you found out that you had said it in a foreign forum?

My friend likes playing candy crash and she drooled to start tapping the empty air before her. And she was smiling at her wins! A lover of computer shooting games saw the airplane above him and wondered where in his world he had shot at it! A child confuses everything to a play object and that may not be the comparison here.

During normal working or talking time, a man has suddenly and severally asked, ‘How are you?’ The girl, mature enough to see it not as a bother has always severally replied, ‘I am good my friend’. A footballer has always seen two trees or stands as goal posts. A driver has always looked for a way on a small path in case he came there with a lorry, speaking to himself what ridge would be filled and what bump would be lowered.

It has happened at many times that I meet a stranger whom I confuse to a person I know. And it doesn't happen to be a miracle when that person visits or calls you later in the day. And many more of that…is it a special attribute?....have you experienced some?

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