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Chahilu history in Lulogooli : Gaa kale gaa Chahilu (1942-2025)

Bernard Philimona Chahilu 1942-2025  Liivulwa Mukuluundu Bernard Philemon Chahilu yivulwa muhiga gwa 1942 mweli gwa kavili guvee sita (6/2/1942). Nu mwana wa Elam Kilago na maama Jelida Modani ma vosi vaakuza. Nu muyaayi Mukizuungu Mudidi mwifwa Mumasiingila Muvisonye. Yiivulwa muyaayi munifu mulidaala lye Gaigedi, Gaigedi logongo, Wodanga Lusoma, Sabatia Sub-county, Vihiga County. Kuviikilwa makono. Yaaviikilwa ku makono no mwilwazi Daudi Kadenge muhiga gwa 1942 mulidaala lie Gavudia mulivugaana lia Valina. (Friends Church). Likevwa Yaakevwa muhiga gwa 1952 kekevo chalaangwa Silula. Lisooma Yaataangila lisooma lilie ha Gaigedi masoomo go muluguki. Yaamanya niazya Gahumbwa Primary muhiga gwa 1955 mukilaasi kia kavaga. Yaakola ligela lia vaalaanga C.E.E. (Common Entrance Exam) muhiga gwa 1956 ha Gahumbwa. Muhiga gwa 1957 yaazya kusooma mukilaasi cha kataano ha Kericho Township School. Muhiga gwa 1958 yaazya kusooma ha Kigama Intermediate mukilaasi cha siita niakolela ho ligela liala...

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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