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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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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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