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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 #10

-Avagesi vavuna mbango -
Avagesi - thieves
Vavuna - broke
Mbango - cooking stick
Kuvuna mbango nekovora kuduka kuvudinyu, kokora mashioro, kudukwa ni kivi. Kandi rivoraa onyorechi, havura hukwirukira. Niva yari imbisu yakuvurwa. Muvango nigwavunikaa rideka si riazizagiriraa dave kinga vavaze gundi.
Ku si nimadinyu mbango kuvunwa navagesi? Ha vari vakoraki numbango? Dave, si gwari mbango vava, gari gandi gavakora. Vaganira mbwivi! Varara vari nivazii kwiva ma vaganira yo navivi vandi. Imburirizani henaha sevorekaa.
Umwivi anyara kuva mundu wosi akoraa gatenyekaa noho kugada. Rivezaho ridiku amaa anyoreka na vandi vandu vabara kumutama kari niyenya yegoizi aturimu anyora ahandaririi mumatava. Kimanyaa kekorwa ni gave vahuririzane vaviki imbisu.
Navuza imbisy yi riveshi si ikunikwiraa ikunikika. Yene madiku nigakisunda imaa ivurika rwa vatangaa kogosana. Ma vandu vamanya 'goo, igo geekorekaa mumbisu!'

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