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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...

Imbura Poem

RAIN POEM
Imbura yizimbeni
Nihiriganii Ivare
Tarinda etonye vava
Navuza wirase mwigama
Kijira siitaangaa kunyirira
Yizaa numurumirira gwutarinda
Ni imbuza yo kwita
Itinyuraa visiki nirasanyia nisaranyia
Ni giingura madurengere nitavanyia
Zimbeni zivugirizana
Ziadikira muzizoreeri
Magina niganaara rosoma
Vana ni vahenda mioyo
Guku niyigaanira muvwasi
Mwanzu si guraviza ichova
Mukado gusiavuchi muvugika
Gohononokizi idisi ya reve
Igo garorekaa mmavovo
Uvwerefu nivuravizaa
Koheriza maresi mamwamu
Nukukaminya magina zana
Vaana nivataagadora
Nukubadura nivizavazavanyia
Na mazi giimbura
Maziriru zizizi

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