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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: Kotema Kerova

Izava went about its business as we talked. It was yet it wasn't. The trench was there, visible, but the waters that left their fountains in the morning were long into Bunyore if so Izava's speed can be estimated.

Kotema kerova is when somebody needs a certain cleansing that in itself isn't well justified. For instance, if my sister had a child before marrying, and it happens the child dies, she is supposed not only to attend to the child's burial but also do something else.

Once the child is burried, in this case in paternal place, she has to spend sometime with the child's father. Have sex. Fire extinguishes fire, foresters know that. If the child is in maternal home, burried there, anyone, probably my sister's crush would be the pawn in the game. She should go where she's married a washed woman.

Kukunga kihari, as I shall  later include more of sayings, is when a child and the paternal people are supposed to set off before the died woman is burried fully. The died woman could be a married or divorced lady who in a way or another, a conflict settles her to be burried where she was born. Dowry may not have been paid or the husband was cruel. When the grave is filled halfway, they leave immediately, without eating, no looking, sometimes under great cries from the child.

Kotema Kerova is also what is expected when people you are closely related to die. If my brother, sister, parent dies, I got to sleep with my wife, of course if I am married, and shed off the happenstance.

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