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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 : When I get to the end

A man who said his grandfather never wore clothes sat up at Ichava, daraja tatu, the place Izava crosses the tarmacked road of Kima-Stend Kisa, where I would start the next day from. He was of Avesonga clan in Nyore. Songa could be a luo woman, he said. He said that there once were land conflicts between Maragoli and Nyore which the white man settled with boundaries. His father was called Orwari and Orwari was the son of Afune Mkingi who wore no clothes.

They tried to plant coffee here but nothing happened. See the bushes remaining to date. That was in 1954.

That said, I entered a matatu whose conductor did not cash me change. Morning, the very matatu showed up and I entered. I was alighted but being quick to speak to the hurrying driver served best than cursing. He listened and in I went. Destination where I left last evening. At Bunyore Farmers factory, like any other quiet coffee place, I started the day.

The plan was to walk, seriously walk, see whether I'd remain with a small distance to cover the coming day. People and talking I'd reduce for the information I had wanted I thought I had. What would be questions is the rivers and streams flowing in. And for that, at Halyayuga stream I cleaned shoes from mud caused by due. My clipboard fell and papers socked. Lucky it was morning and I did not cram all my writings together.

Things that crosses one's path! You but see grass and leaves shake. A wrong path and Izava was lost. I had to walk long. The ridges had confused me. And Lusela stream from Muhondo and Ebunangwe places joined at Magaha area before Mmuyeshe- Muhondo road. Two, a stream from  Muruore, Matsuri and Elukhove went in. It is like at the start of Kakamega county all streams head Northwest for Izava received no major inflow from there.

The best way to justify my questions was that I was a student and out for research. You would be mad to say you are passionate to follow a river! And when they say that traditions among the Nyore are not as they used to be, they said to a trustee. One old man who weeded and in a while went by the banana to take tea said Mundioli stream bordered Matsuri from Emang'ari.

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