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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...

Saying #3

-Hakwaveera musara gwamera swa?
Hakwavera- long we have lived
Musara -tree
Gwamera -grown, produced
Swa -ziswa, nematodoes, kumbekumbe
Long then birds were caught by using kumbekumbe glued on trees. We know that the source of them is anthills.  When a man saw them flap on trees he knew that one had set a trap.
This proverb is used in talks and warns people's of easy begetting of their needs. It could be a trap. It encourages reason and caution in every undertaking. It warns that unless you trust and are sure that what you are about to do is right, think twice. For sooner or later it may be a masked project.

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