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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 : Fresh Air Fiend

I was told that if I had ever seen those jobless TV people who danced naked, I was such. He was a fairly aged man with a cap and boots resembling country style. Asking what an inlet stream was called made him tell me that I was a foreigner. I had thought he would be helpful.

Kids who were harvesting sand did not know the name to it but one could remember the grandmother telling it's name. As I waited for the boy who had gone to ask, he  coarsed me to give the kids some money. Where from? I had money, he said.

Kayiya is the name to it with an origin before Kivura. Kivura is the village to the famed Vodoti. There are two watersheds there however. One facing Nabwani side and the other for Izava. Wambogi is a stream sourcing from a spring from Losengeli a distance before the dried spring at Walugose.

My fresh air fiend, as Theroux notes in his adventure, told the chaps who were cracking rocks around that I was campaigning. To campaign means to talk to people and give them some money. I quickly said I wasn't doing that.

Relieved that I was gone, a woman who was washing asked me whether I knew about her clan name meaning. Very important. As much as I asked, I needed share. Unfortunately, I did not know what Vakihayo means.

Another power saw noised from a distance. Man was busy. One of the best deals is timber deal. I had early in life observed the manual mega saw that raised a heavy log up by rolling. It was taking longer in producing hardwood for the market. A power saw was born.

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