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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 #15

-Ridiku rindi urigota nzira -
(Translation; some day else you will lose the road)
Gavezaa mundu niyakanyora amaa agirung'ana. Niyaraa  mutevi wa mang'ana agwa agamanya. Niyaraa mwangu, ariduha. Vandu kuri venavo mavakubirwaa rugano yiru.
Siriridukaku ridiku riu mundu anyara kwinaza nokovora siyenyaa vokonyi vwa vandi. Ni kuri kumanya inzira izizaa havundu nareve. Rwu umaa uturi nogeronda ma uhuriri matava imbiri nirwo rwu mundu mugeri amaa ateva inzira yindi. Inziriyi inyara kuva runyasi rwu vurwaye, rikora mima noho rienya kumanya.
Vurahi nevoveeho sigenyaa mundu yiviriri vamukonyaa rwa yari namadiva. Genyekaa muzing'inga ziosi mundu yegehizi. Noveye navio noho nuvura wiviki mu riva riukwehozeriza kijira ganyara kugwa madinyu ing'inga yosi.
Kari nataveye mundu wu wagosera, imima jijo jirokee ku vandu vanyingi. Unyara kwiharara uzie ihare nirisuvira si umanyikani mba. Rwa mumanani uyu azizaa kwenya vokonyi nareve anyora nuvudinyu kijira rwa yakonyeka yagirung'ana nachaya vamukonyaa.

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