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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...

Where is Kamunara school?

[07/08 8:41 pm] Ndanyi Saniaga: Guys, amongst Avasaniaga we have academic heavy weights professors and docs of high esteem besides successful business ppl, but non of these ever vies for elective positions, do we lack ambition?

[07/08 8:42 pm] Lung'afa: I guess when politics will leverage we shall beat them all. Guys are trying...campus to all levels. Is Raila not Saniaga? We in!

[07/08 8:44 pm] Neccy Flossy: Yes Raila is Kamnara.  I still need to know how he became one? And is luo or are Kamnaras lous?

[07/08 8:45 pm] Lung'afa: I was speaking to Ruth Odinga via texts and she wasn't sure...Maybe we visit state house next week?

[07/08 8:47 pm] Neccy Flossy: Good idea... with isugudi, nyatiti and kilume

[07/08 9:23 pm] Mudengani Kisia: Kamnara of sakwa are not luo, they were assimilated into luo culture.

[07/08 9:27 pm] Lung'afa: Ruth Odinga is the head of 'vamenya' in luo community. The term themselves 'people who followed the railway'. Now, this Bondo has saniaga...dont know for sure the place. Is it a school or what? I heard it. I will cycle there next week or so.

[07/08 9:31 pm] Mudengani Kisia: Yeah, there's a school called kamnara primary somewhere.

[07/08 9:35 pm] Lung'afa: And Kamunara is Luo word...Jakamunara

[07/08 9:43 pm] Mudengani Kisia: Meaning 'from kamnara'

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