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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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Izava Walk : When I get to the end

Izava Walk : Rogele stream

Izava Walk: The Meru mam

Izava Walk : Gold at Viyalo

Izava Walk : Trees of Maragoli

Izava Walk : Idigoi stream

Izava Walk : Unmotivated

Izava Walk : Unmotivated

Izava Walk; Water Mill

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Izava Walk : Gavugogo stream

Izava Walk : Imemwa Stream

Izava Walk : Wodanga

Izava Walk : Wa Mmakaya

Izava Walk : Igurugwa stream

Izava Walk: Wamasimba Mkivanda

Izava Walk : Mwana We Imbiri Nichekoyero

Izava Walk: Trees and their uses

Izava Walk : Positioning a grave

Izava Walk: Kotema Kerova

Izava Walk : Our spring leaks

Izava Walk : Fresh Air Fiend

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Izava Walk : Bush bushing

Izava Walk : Where to sleep

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