Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from 2017

Featured

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...

2018 - All that should cease

Minutes of First AGM - 30/12/2017

Thanks for sharing the AGM minutes

Apologies for not attending the AGM

As we approach the AGM

Maragoli and Bukusu, why the rift?

Maragoli Cultural Event - 26/12/2017

Isugugu ngiyi, varaturira iruguru!

Whereabouts of Agure Anakanyonyi of 1800's?

Discordant Voices; Lung'afa's translation

Discordant Voices; Luvai's translation

Vudiku vulahi (Good night)

A welcome song to Saturn

Discordant voices within Me

What best for Maragoli hills?

My daughter, let education be your first husband.

Utunzi bora haukosi kashfa

Murogori had many wives and other sons.

In that case, you all buffoons.

Happy to have met RAILA ODINGA

App. 1560 is Murogori said to have reached Maragoli Hills.

Road carnages, let us be.

The First white man among the Maragoli was?

Boy Child President, Save US!

Won't you tell us about the plans you have?

You got to sound 'cool'.

Let us be clear ...

Aunt, what of you now?

May we avoid 'sharing' of what doesn't help.

Agendas for AGM be precisely short.

You have answered me, I rest my case.

When it comes to money...

We met at Sosa!

Pre - Meeting on Friday.

Na kindiki iki?

Should we congratulate Uhuru?

Closer to the AGM

Lung'afa! Come here! You boy!

Hold on, it is a pitiful Ivane.

Vihiga United ni Chekorero

Yaromba ivindu vio kogenyia

Risara riu mukiguti che ridasa

Ha muhembe

I'm Lumadi. And he is a Lumadi. A problem?

Things Fall Apart - Maragoli #2