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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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Do not tell me

I am not a person who is all ears to know about something. I do not yet have trust issues because my engagements are small. Yet my curiosity is beyond measure. If I should know by myself then let it be so. You could ask whether being informed would prevent me from damage or danger and I’d ask you whether your informing is no danger in itself.

I always do not want to be told what I think is a cliché. Keep your cheap stories to yourself. But there are simple stories- commonly known that good thinkers and orators sarcastically turn them around to inform a talk. I welcome them. But always let us work more, walk more, discuss more than we get to talking for the sake. And if you think you know something I do not know, know that I shall do my private study to beat you in your game. I am not an ‘I do not have an idea’ chap.

It were better if you wrote your sermon than me coming to listen as you talk. Listening is passive and I do it best by thinking of better things. In high school I could not manage a two hour movie gaze. I am not into waiting for a movie star to walk, sing, shoot and all those things. Zombies are informed by images. The others imagine.

When the Television airs sodomy clips, what is their intention? When people spread accident and bomb images, what do they intend to get? Pity? To feed on that is to key in garbage. It is same as junk food. News should be of development, strategies, policies and issues that spring humanity to a higher level. But we have newspapers that tell us how women put pepper in their vaginas! Information has been confused to gossiping. People idle daily online to suck them in.

And my friends have always wondered why I do not break news to them. I’d know that a lecturer won’t be coming to class but find it hard to tell my friends. It doesn’t pain me to puke it out. I am good without sharing what I know. In my selfishness I have spared a number of conflicts with the irrational. I always tend to think I am the last person to know. My simple cell phone can testify.

Ignorance is bliss. There are a whole lot of people to ignore because some sounds in one’s ears pain the hard and tear someone’s sacred day. King Solomon is reincarnated in few of our friends. If you have that friend who aspires for the best (intellectually I mean) then you have gold. Most bring about negative energies. They watch movies, hit parties, brag around and all manner of robot virtues. They are wonderfully and fearfully comfortable.


It should also take a person with such understanding to seek information at his own time. To think of a matter when all speakers are dead asleep, to ask the knowledged. To meditate for increased power of third eye so that before you are told, you knew. Instead of fainting and sprawling when life turns tragic, be prepared for the worst. People do not spread goodness anyway. Goodness is in you.

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