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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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Nivaduya Kegong'o kwirova

Vasakuru varanga vasaniaga vosi Ivudaywa madiku gene gara. Arap Titi yashira zibarua ivunandi na vandi nivazivugul'la evorogori kwel'leka embo. Rudiku riu kuvugana vwacha v'vi kijira  varogori val'la, vanga Anzigare, Parafandara na Rivendi vahenza kuvasakuru vafudura matu vaveye nizimbome kuminwa ne viahonyo ma vatanga kuvasekeriza ne kokora kehenyahenye kovora yavo na vasaniaga dave (hambi kuragiri, eboso ihii. Na kaseveve ku munyu gonoji mu).

Kivara chadunya rwa varanji vi riagana vegosera ku isirika ya vandu hakiguti. Val'la vaamoromaa twa twa, vandi twe twe na vandi kacha kacha. Ku vana vu musaniaga vahenzaniranaa kunduru kwe emoni. Ring'ung'una riakira rwi ibarasa yavura kutanga.

Gari ndi vasaniaga vahambane vave kindu kirara. Vakol'le miyinzi harara. Vaveye ne miandu vamburi vavura. Na vamenya ihare vihul'li yengo. Cha vahul'la ni ndi -riagana si riekoreka navuza ridiku riakusundizwa. Yaga mang'ana garuma vasakuru zinda kijira vari nivaturi muvivara ihare.

Gekoreka ni gu kuhuga kijira musakuru munandi yasingira narakava navora, 'vamwavo vitu vakwambakani. Si varikoraku riagana mba!' ma naduya kegong'o kwirova. Ma vahararira wavari nivaturi virumaa videte nivisuha.

Yamba rugano yiru ni Musaniaga Laban kutura Ivwigina.

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