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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...
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Saniaga as mwana wu Mukana - Kavogoi

Another version to the above, as Onamu from Gambogi said, is that Saniaga ni nyumba yu mukana. These, elders refuse. But hango hagosaaku mwana wumkana kweri?

Kavogoi, Murogori's daughter, was married Embo. She had been taken as she had gone Mukisumiru. There she had given birth to children (number?), before her husband decided to marry another wife. Imbarika. It is said she 'refused'.

Some important knowing is that all Murogori outcasts -epileptic, mad, etc - were given to Luos for free. They go marry there. Even those who feared circumcision. Kivi kizie Embo.

We do not say Kavogoi was 'mad', but then, a woman was a woman. Sit, relax, sire, age, die, a process she went through. But she thought of her father, brothers, home...and ran back with kids. The man is said to have been Jakamnara.

'Murogori', seeing 'Kavogoi' back and children with her, he was least disturbed. There was land and it was better the grandchildren lived Evorogori than Embo. Well, the sons, as they grew followed maternal uncless -Ivusari, Ivukizungu, Imavi and Ivukirima - for land. And having grown as orphans, they grew to love one another and were so passionate to be meeting and looking at one another's welfare.

- This version does not explain the Saniaks. Could Saniaks be a name coincidence? Research!

- Have a researching Day, won't you?

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