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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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Where do you hide your key?

Early man was mostly worried about the encroachment of preying organisms into his hideout. The doors to his cave were but temporary stones or plants that could send away a snake. A visit to the Maragoli hills where it is believed that the first Mulogoli inhabited evokes questions of security and storage. But his need for housing was generally for shelter. Food was on the trees and from the gazelles around. He did not have value for gold to hide it from a monkey.

Then things happened with time. From the grass thatched house of a door made from fiddles tied close with tree barks came the modern banking doors. When one man in authority gave value to diamond so did the rest of the men start thinking of it as important and therefore it became scarce because those who could afford in bulk acquired it. Presently we lock our laptops, TV sets, books and pets among others indoors mostly to keep them from the worst pathogen-man.


This article is interested in knowing where you keep your keys and why you think that place is secure. Though there are places that once we leave the key there we go away not very convinced that your house is safe. Yet we still leave it. We have the false confidence that things are safe once the padlock is pinned.

Up at my front door is a frame that consists of the roof. Each time I lock the door, knowing that no one is looking do I quickly place the single key there. But so many a times have one or two of the neighbors see me stretch up before opening the door. They know where I keep the key.

As I observed today, before thinking of bringing up this article, my neighbor slowly lifted her steeping mat outside the door and placed the key there. Why had she even locked the door? To tell those who would be visiting her later in the day that she is not around? In fact two of my neighbors hide by the mat. This paragraph is very confidential.

Where you keep your key is such an important security. If you think not, think about arriving home late in the night just to find that you don’t have your key. If your neighbor will wake up to help you with a hammer, then you are a good person. But landlords and doors of some estates are not so easy to vandalize. They come with such a great cost.

When you live as a family and you would want even the child to benefit from key keeping easiness, mama mboga is the best person to leave the key with. Losing one’s key can be such a detrimental endeavour among children whose poor parents think photocopying is such an expense. The most careful of the children can be entrusted with it.

Where you keep your key may be as easy for a thief to identify. There may be no enough thieves to wreck havoc in all of us and that is why despite your carelessness and lack of security in your area you will still be the one who left the door last and going in first.

And as you walk away tomorrow, think of such petty things.

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