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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...

Izava Walk Library

Hello Reader, here are all the Izava walk articles links in their order. I hope you find pleasure in reading them.

1.  Preparations
2. Which direction ahead?
3. Materere Stream
4. Kidundu stream
5. A river of Inzara
6. Musakhulu Makacha
7. Lwandoni Coffee Factory
8. Tiriki borders Maragoli
9. Where to sleep?
10. Bush bushing
11. No more butterflies
12. Fresh Air Fiend
13. Our spring leaks!
14. Kotema Kerova
15. Positioning a grave
16. Plants and their uses
17. Mwana we Imbiri nichekoyero
18. Wamasimba Mukivanda
19. Igurugwa stream
20. Wa Mmakaya
21. Wodanga
22.Imemwa Stream
23. Gavugogo stream
24. When a spring dries
25. Water Mill
26. Unmotivated
27. Idigoi Stream
28. Trees of Maragoli
29. Gold at Viyalo
30. The Meru mam
31. Rogele stream
32. When I get to the end
33. But the spring is dry
34. My shoe gawked
35.  It Was!

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