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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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Enzogu yakuzira wa Rivendi

Enzogu -elephant, mighty
Yakuzira -it died there
Mukivanda -valley bottom, well, spring
Cha -of, owned by
Rivendi -a rat, yellow stripped bush rat.

Kare kwariho na vandu vazizaa mukidaho vuri kazozo kosomba mazi. Rwa vavitaa muvivitiru vaganaa ne tujungu kunzira. Tujungu zana twaraa nu vuvare vwe rigondo rie kibugi. Ku vandu vegosaa vavora -'ma! mavendi gayanza kuvitavita imbiri wa vandu.'

Ku enzogu yaraa inyamanyama yaguta ziosi mukivara. Si yenyaa ku inyama yindi ikumi dave kijira iranyora ruyari kugivita. Rwa yahurira Rivendi rihevwaa ruyari kuvita kegero yamanya nisinyika niyenya kumanya Rivendi ni vwaha. Kandi yenyaa yiti Rivendi.

Ku yazia niyisingiriza mukidaho niva iharavi mbitirira. Rwa vandu vavuka vanyaguri ne visanda ne zisiongo vadahe mazi makere ne mitugu jitaaduvura gagwi vusinu vanyora Enzogu yakukumara mukidaho iduvuu hosi vavura sha vakora.

Ku vamanya nivarangana niveteva nikindiki kerombaa enzogu nekora shie ekoraa ndio. Rwa vandu vataraa 'Rivendi' ma emeda vururu isuvira ni mundu murara kuvaveye vadashi va mazi. Vandu vamanya nivarora kivi nivita enzogu yenira.

Rwa enzogu yakuza vamanya nivaranga kidaho chenicho 'wa rivendi'. Rugano yiru rufananaa nu rwa 'Navoregwa yita embogo'.

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