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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...

SANIAGA WhatsApp GROUP

Good Morning! It is Friday 21, July 2017 and we 'launch' this group. I am happy to be here among my kin folk. The aim is in belonging, feeling you are with your people. The purpose is in sharing, encouraging and focussing. I know that saniagas did strive to form economic support groups in the past but in a way things went down. I believe that the fire burns in us and the dream that was should be lived. It would come with different hics because we would not read from the same page always which I encourage all of us to aspire past the normal scratches to eagle view potential conflicts. 

As much as we are of one blood we need not be blind to think we are of one soul. And therefore, in whatever initiative you may take as a Saniaga, own it first by yourself without necessarily expecting all of us behind your back. And being committed as a saniaga can be, let us keep diverse options of growth, reason and support. Unknown to us would be the voices of those who do not want to speak or measure their moods. Tend to say something always. Strive to research and learn. Develop the thirst. Do not be a listener only. And that would give you a sit in the many barazas we shall have here.

 Few said and much left, I would request us to seek Saniagas wherever they are. Talk to them, listen to their stories, ask questions, add them here. And in that way we shall keep the blood alive, the gods happy and ourselves worth to our next generation. My name is Lung'afa, the son of Igunza, the son of Lung'afa, the son of Isagi, the son of Liguchi, the son of Mugenge, the son of  Viriruma*, son of  Mweremi*, the son of Mafumu*, son of Ruriva*, Son of Saniaga and I dwell at saniaga.blogspot.com

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