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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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Attending a youth event

There is a writer, sorry that I can't recall to quote him who said that 'avoid words as youth, digital and innovation' as key words to any agenda. I agree. They are as vague a words as saying man to mean both man and woman, Earth to mean creation and sun to mean light - there is more than that to it.

The meeting was to start at 10am. The leader was in earlier but took to photocopying a memorandum of understanding to come an hour later when not a many had arrived. The meeting started at midday with a bad attendance you would think it was for the selected few.

Pen borrowing menace kicked off as they rushed to put down their names on a paper and sign badly. It would be a checklist for future handouts, opportunities. If you do not stand to let the last person use your pen you will never see it again. They came in tight trousers and blazers with big phones, not a pen.

They kick up a discussion without a clear agenda and get swayed  to the sumptuous. 'tenders'. 'The county government need give us the opportunities, give us tenders, make us grow.' They have never even had coins to do hawking. They want tenders. They also want to be rich.

Much time spent there one correcting another so that he sounds knowing, the event is left to gentlemen and ladies to speak to each other in rising tones. Lastly we suggest we want a tender to supply newspapers. An old should not be given that. Is he not under special group category? I get asked.

The grammatical errors on the issued paper are massive. Would I be in order to change the discussion to that? If we could only do correct sentences then we would be guided to do greater things too. Only two pages and no one had the appetite to read. He should have shared it on phones, just maybe we would read.

It ends with conflicts, some suggesting there exists registered youth channels and ours was an illegal meeting, others thinking the people who assembled us were doing PR to be known, go about bargaining with our tag, bottled water was drunk, the church venue had been paid, none asked by who.

We took a picture together, me rushing to be the photographer, taking several of them and loved it when none stammered that he would take as I joined the rest. Who wants to be photographed there? Shame.

How was the event? You are asked by that who skipped. 'I know them, they never are serious with anything but their stomachs and libidos, not heads. Being different is something else.

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