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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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Teamwork is for lazies and failures

One of the best Facebook copy-paste power statements said that there is no mausoleum named after a group. The advice was that if you want to run fast enough, take off alone. It is true because villages are named after people and all that ever was was an individual’s idea before it came to be.

I have always fought against the preachy quotes of collaboration, cooperation and group mentality. The individual is likely to lose an identity – not for the better. When you cooperate, you get swallowed. If a stream pours into a river, its identity ends at the estuary. Remember that the river had a name.

Individuals make a group. It is disastrous to promote individualism in a group. That is when cheap murmurings get throned. You will hear them say she is a bragger, too commanding and inconsiderate. The will say you have pride. They will remark how you look down upon them. When a person disagrees with another or a group, he gets autonomy. He gets audience which could not be necessarily huge. Ask political runaways.

If a group leader sits to wait for the day members will forward in their shares incase of a table banking move, it would be equal to Turkana’s waiting for the government to save them from drought fangs. The group leader got to make them attend meetings, demand time keeping and forth. There are a people who must be followed and have things done for them. They are the ones who sit down to write in their resumes ‘I am zealous Team Player!”

You are at risk if you are not an animal enough while in a group. There are members who will tear your soul away and leave you rugged. They called you out and you ended up spending all you had. They wanted to mess up things and you found self in trouble. When you are a calm person, few of words, avoid groups. There could be a sociopath waiting for you. A group is not a huge number…it could be your one and only friend.

What is the need of having a person proofread my paper before it is submitted for its intended purpose? If so corrections shall be made and worthiness increased, there is a compromised individuality that wants to thrive in company- in being assisted. If you cannot do it best yourself, you are a failure if not a lazy.


Where you are weak, another could be best in, a group sycophant would want to challenge me. That is what old professors do my friend. They use young chaps who are good in this and that to have their ways. That is what company owners do. They use men’s backs to enrich themselves. No teamwork. When you are weak in this, don’t give an excuse that you are better in that. Get out of that managerial seat and even if it is for an hour, let the person who knows what you do not have a sit.

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