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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 #19

-Vana vahul'laa kaviri kavaga-

(Translated as; Children hear twice thrice)

Umwana nu mwana. Rwovezaa naye ajira nurwana runyingi kijira akivirukaa na samanyi vindu vinyingi mba. Vavori vavoraa mwana sajira namagoso mba. Nagosi avezaa nakol'lee murigotwa kinga risura mba.

Nuwigizaa mwana sanyara kugumira migizu gosi l'lara mba.  Mal'la gamaa gambita. Noho ava nikirage chukwenya kumanya onyora chagaywanji nicho chazizagil'laa kokora. Irwo rwu mundu amaa avugura imbimbu mbura mahagama gaturi muvo.

Rugano yiru rukubirwaa vandu vahundira, vana dave. Onyoraa kandi navo vagosaa muvika vinyingi kuri vana. Venyaa vuri inyinga vave nivavol'lwaa kora ndi, kora ndio. Genyaa mundu muhindira akore ruhindira. Rwana mba.

Kwigaa goo, vana navageheru murimanya na venyaa viraniri kwigizwa nu mundu wosi. Utaruha kwigiza mwana mba. Navuza mundu yakahindira naturi murwana sigenyekaa ave wokovol'lwa mba navuza wokokora gadukani. Vana ma vigiraa kuvahindira.

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