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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 : Bush bushing

Good moro! The day started with seeing what remained of my primary school teacher who committed suicide. Was it a home with pigeons and rabbits? Cows and hens? A family can get wiped in a very short time. Unconcerned, Izava flowed downwards.

There is Riverside ridge before Lusengeli. Opposite, where Ehedwe calms to Izava is Lwenya. Ihedwe/Ehedwe is the small river one crosses from Senende to Hamisi. It follows the depths of the rifts, gathering water from springs to make Izava pleased.

Wondering why there was no placards or posters discouraging open-air defecation, a man came. He found me facing the bush, pouring warm salty water on the grass. It is an all time favourite feeling to piss by a bush, head up, taking in gulps of fresh air. Ask anyone whom I ever trekked with.

Irangatwa is the only son whom  people can say Kaka had a child, the man answered. He is yet to join college buy about the rest, it is a matter we can't talk about.

Gwaka is past tense. He was a strong boy that used to nguruma while running. His shoulders leaned left. He resembled the father. What is reported is that days after he came home, his stomach swelled abnormally the way people who are bewitched symptomise. Had he stolen something? What was the disease? The young man later died.

If you met Isiaho you wouldn't believe! It is said he is in Nairobi. He has as many  cuts as you won't count. He lives a bad life there and if he came here all the village would be terrorized.

Nyasaye akovere zimbavasi, we parted.

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