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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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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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