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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 #8

-Vatwa vasekana zimbara -
vatwa - people of foreign origin, half-casts, of similar problems, living at the boundary
vasekana - laughed at each other, scorned one another
zimbara - wounds, scars, fates
Vatwa na vandu vanakivara vataveye nuvurungi murimenya riavo. Na vandu vidikira mu vandi, varara vazia komenya mumiritu na vandi vazia muzihiri zindi.
Rwa vaganiraa yo, vogono vwo kumanya yavo na vandu vu l'lera l'lara korondekana ne riva riavo, vamaa vagirung'ana vatanga kosekeriza no komonya vandi. Vari vakonyane vamaa vagosana vava vasigu kari si vahereranaa mba. Numuteva wache aveendi amaa yegoiza amanyi mba noho amoroma mang'ana madamanu kuye.
Vuri mundu aveyange ne imbara yeye. Imbara iyi novogeheru vunakivara. Vunyara kuva vurwaye, vudaka, vusiza, vorema, vukungu noho vumanani vunavoreve. Rwa mundu atangaa koteta navora mang'ana madamanu ku undi amaa yiviriraa kandi naye aveye novogeheru. Genyaa mundu murimoroma ririe avore marahi, mang'ana gumbakaa, inditi ne viseno areke. Na ndio si varasekana zimbara mba navuza varayanguizana murimenya riavo.

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