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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 #17

- Vukiri vudiku novoraa vuyu numugasu -

(Translation; It is still night and you are saying Anonymous is blessed)

Kisundi nichovora orol'lee mu kindu mba. Niwari otevwe chorori umaa wivare rugano. Sigenyaa mundu yikumi kwing'ana noho kukindu chatamanyi vurungi vwacho mba.

Mang'ana gi kisundi namadinyu. Ganyara kuva riveshi. Kinyara kuva nikivwa chivika risero rie rigondi. Utasuvirira mu dave. Nuva ovee mugeri umaawegehiza kijira si niviosi ving'ereng'anaa vivee zing'ereng'ani vava!

Mundu akubirwaa rugano yiru niyari yasuvirira mumundu naleve. Varara vamaa vagoyanywa na vandu, vagwa vasiru. Nuwari uviganihizi vasura. Umwiganihizi agwa mudamanu. Kivuni kenenene onyora ni vandu vaveye nerisuvira riu vuyingu mu vandi.

Kari niva nivurahi kusuvirana, genyaa mundu ava nuvwogo vwukumanya kiriha kirahi na kiriha kitaveye kirahi. Mang'ana gukubadika kindu noho mundu numurahi nasiwamumanya wosi dave si gavee marahi mba. Mugeri amaa aha mundu vusuvirifu kivara, vwosi mba.

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