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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...

Origin of Sakwa Kamnara - Second Vesion

-: The second version states that the kamnara people came to sakwa via lake Victoria. Like other tribes that initially settled in sakwa, they used 'bworo' (floating islands) or 'yiedhi' (canoes) for crossing the lake, where they came from is not clear but elders of the tribe believe that they might have come from yimbo location or from some islands in lake Victoria. They are not descended from Luo since proff. Ogot does not mention them in the history of the Luo.- msakuru Hezekiah Kisia.

-: Now here is the connection. 'the kamnara in sakwa are aware that some of their people continued moving towards the East and probably settled in present maragoli of vihiga District. However they are not able to relate the details or estimate the period or date with regard to this movement'

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