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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...

Yes, I am a bike cyclist

Ndanyi Saniaga: Patrick, you said u r cyclist, is it bicycle or motorbike, can u use the later?

Lung'afa: They call it the industrialisation machine, ingida! The later can be used, why not? It will be a good leverage.

Ndanyi Saniaga: You have to graduate to the next so that you can cover longer distance but you have be qualified, come we talk.

Metrine Saniaga: Huku ni wapi

Lung'afa: Kitale, Kamoiywa. Deep in Nangili. Had gone to see William Ogova, a certain lulogoli writer. That day I cycled about 200 kilometres!

Metrine Saniaga: 🙉 weee ni mnoma

Peter Kirima: 👌🏽

Lung'afa: Hiyo day maji yaliisha, njaa ilinipata Kamukuywa, nilikua nimetumia wrong route that I had to branch to use the rough road to Mawe Tatu! Wacha mvua inipate! Niliomba mahindi chom kwa njia. One day I will go back and pay those mamas their coins.

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