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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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Saniagas as weaklings

[02/08 9:38 pm] Lung'afa: musaniaga ni murushia da

[02/08 9:39 pm] ‪+254 704 324043‬: Yah! C murushia

[02/08 9:40 pm] Peter Kirima: Ngani cho kivuni kuve muscular kuri avandi dave.

[02/08 9:41 pm] Lung'afa: kwaimbiha, kwang'ereha, Kwang'ahirira

[02/08 9:47 pm] Peter Kirima: Mbekuho umtambi chigira guga yari mtambi halafu yang'aha. Baba vamranga msoda. Avandu varangwa msoda vanyora iryita irio wa vandu kutura south africa va vitira mkivara cha maragoli in 1920's. Baba yari mwimbi gidi umravu zwee. As for me my features are a mixture of many things I get confused

[03/08 9:21 am] Mudengani Kisia: We must find out where we intermingled with gikuyu. These languages are near similar. They also have kirima. The  only thing I remember being told by someone that kirima was the father to murogori.

[03/08 11:10 am] Lumadi Jenyeka: Bantus throughout the continent have some similar names/words because of common origin and migration routes. Lumadi is a Maragoli name but is found among Xhosa's as well

[04/08 5:40 pm] Peter Kirima: Other Luhyas are equally heavy build like those from central africa only they are not as light skinned as congolese

[04/08 5:41 pm] Peter Kirima: The tribes in South Sudan

[04/08 5:42 pm] Lung'afa: That they are?

[04/08 5:42 pm] ‪+254 795 401807‬: Are the most strongest people

[04/08 5:43 pm] Peter Kirima: They carry the most ancient african gene

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