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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 #18

- Vwiko vwum'murugu -

Vwiko - relationship, relative
Vwum'murugu - of the leg

Vandu va kare sivamoromaa kuri vakarunu mba. Vavisaa mang'ana mumang'ana. Sivenyaa chavavoraa, kari nicharaa kirahi kevoreke havuravu. Rimoroma siriaraa rihingana neritavatava ria kororaa madiku gano mba. Nivavoraa vwiko vwum'murugu vamanyaa chavavoraa vene.

Murugu gwayuma, muvasu guvari ku urarora negong'ereng'ana. Mundu nayaga ku namasanda ararora risamuka riagwo. Vandu vanyingi sivasuviraa virenge viveye nigasi mba. Mavaroraaza viveeho kogenda. Avarema ivo vamanya vurahi vwivirenge.

Rugano yiru rwavorwaa nu mundu yasinywa. Mundu namuteva, 'vuyu numurinovo, sindamanyaa aravora mang'ana mavi kwivi', ma avorerwanji avora, 'vurina vwum'murugu'. Gavee kovora si nivurina vuhindiraa mba. Murara aziraa undi hasi, amumoromeraa madamanu, sivakonyanaa, vaveye nuvusigu mugati. Kari viko vavee ndio.

Unyara kumanya mundu mukonyi korondekana na shiakonyaa wacho, namuvorera marahi, namuruta, namusarira vurahi. Vwenivu vurahi vuhindiraa. Vandu mavavora, vayanzana kuri mweri gwayanza vudiku.

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