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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 : But the spring is dry !

A woman sat down by the open spring to fill her bucket and also for the others. They saw me walk in the reeds but their story was interesting to give me concern. They are women of Erukangu village. A dry well was a few metres away in the land of Zablon Otwoti.

A child throws a leaf in the river and lol, wind throws in more. They flow in a swing manner away. Edukhula is a clean stream flowing in after Emachuri-Esibuye bridge. Maize and nappier make no grazing field available. A show of flooding had destroyed beans and stunted maize. I sought for an upper path. By Izava it was tough.

Up a tree I picked several guava fruits that would serve me great for the day. They were small enough to enter the mouth like groundnuts. I met Masai men from there and wondered as some wondered about me.

Hurrying, a stream came from Emakata and Esirongo. Etukhula stream is its name. It enters Izava shortly after Ematsuli-Kwibaga road. There, a Lake Victoria North Water Services station kept stature. Who operated these places? Did they work? Since their establishment, how efficient has their services been? Nothing but closed doors. It were better if maize was planted where it stood.

Incomplete bridge at Musila, a slippery log one that has always killed drunkards and a farmer who thought family planning was a stupid act all habited a similar niche. He farmed sugarcane near Izava, spoke well about land fragmentation but in a manner of finding what I would say, opposed family planning. What if the one dies?

I was in need of water. My bottle was empty. The way was getting boring. Izava browned badly with sand harvest. Its water would be the last to fetch at death. To a bridge that connects Esirulo to Manyinya I passed. Esanda stream came in. Musihina spring was on the other side of the ridge. The bridge was courtesy of Hon. Otchilo, the present member of parliament for Emuhaya.

A man who wanted to show me the easy path out having hinted I headed to Yala told kids that he would cut the guava tree that they abused by stepping on his maize. Maize and more maize as the Esikhuyu bridge neared. This connected Esirulo to Emusire.

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