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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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Had the Bible remained a folk tale...

Lung'afa: Brothers, the Bible had it remained a historical fable account and not a religious imposter I could regard the writers in a good shade, taking their flaws as pieces of imagination and literary exaggeration. I have read the Bible from cover to cover, no monkey business and it is good a novel sometimes a lesser one to other high ranked literaries.

Lung'afa: Our grandfather's had no strong religious heritage which the coming of Jesus easily took them unawares as they thought it was a passing idea. Alas, our fathers became 'shepherds' and guardians! Now the grandsons, most of us unaware of the religious practises of our great great grandfathers, have fallen victims to interpreting the Bible as our saviour. We but lack knowledge of our language and if you tasted a pinch of it you would throw all these   externals through the windows. With love

Mudengani Kisia: It's good to preserve our language and culture, but as I said earlier let matters of religion be a matter of individual conscience. We can not become sorcerers in the name of preserving tradition. To have some knowledge of how our forefathers used to worship is also good. But should we get deep into it when we already have gotten new light? It's a different age all together, and change is dynamic.

Lung'afa: Well spoken and it should be extended to all others that you should not be afraid to challenge your beliefs. Who knows, you would not be susceptible to world tossing if your mama and papa gave you that Old time Heritage.

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