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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 #16

-Adekaa rodoto na sirushizaa -

Adekaa - He/she cooking, keep on
Rodoto - childish, stupidity
sirushizaa - not cooking, not getting ready

Vuyingu ni kindu kivi muno. Vurava vutuji ngani vandu vanyingi vashira miandu kivara bei. Nikukiviruka nyia witu yakovol'laa nikwakamugosera, 'murava zimburi ngani ndavashira musogoni.

Nohenza ku mang'ana ga vandu vavoraa, ritivura, vikorwa viavo, riganagania, riyinzira, rihayahaya, uranyora varara vakoraa kuri vana. Ruhindira sirovee muvo mba. Unyara kusuvira numwana akoraa.

Rugano yiru rukubirwaa vandu vaginga mitwi, vayingu, zidimbidi, vamanani, vaahangara, vaagota mumiima. Avandu vakoraa vindu kijira rikora riweho. Vandu vatavee soni nevikorwa vivi.

Mugeri genyaa amanya vuri chakoraa keveye namativuri gacho. Nokora marahi, uranyora marahi. Nogenda harahi uranyora kindu kirahi. Kari niva rikora vurahi riragwa ridinyu genyaa mundu akore vurahi vwenivwo kijira vuratigara vurahi. Navuzwa wizimbi saduka havundu imbi yahindira. Iratigara za imbi.

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