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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 #20

-Ai yioho namatiga Vukuru-

(Translated as; Let it  be, that is how it's always been)

Kivara ne rigina riterere. Nukina ku uraswerereka uvuniki. Gutanyariza oreke gave. Nuwegeragera ku uranyora matava. Nivurahi matava gakonyorere vujira yivi mwene kugenya. Kijira nugenya nuriri mbitirira.

Gekorechi gekorechi. Gasunduchi gasunduchi. Gagwii gagwii. Gaduchi gamarii kuduka. Yivi ni vwaha uhangare nago? Gavugiriri shagaveye, gavuguri kuri mangu, yiviki muriva rio kwehozeriza.

Rugano yiru rukubwaa ing'inga ya mang'ana madinyu ganyoo mundu. Rinyara kuva rikuza, kogotiza mwandu, kogoserwa nu mundu, kuduka hudira na gandi. Mundu genyaa yivika mwisuvira ndi, garagasa. Si gavee yago geng'ine gadukaa vandu mba. Koveyeho na gandi manene, manyingi.

Vwituriru mu madinyu vokonyaa mundu asosa vwangu. Rifwenzekerera rizaa na gandi. Kutura mu madinyu genyaa riiva riu mwiyo mwangu, rivugirira ku gosi, kumanya mundu ne kerombe kegeheru, sandara avee nu vuyanzi na rundi kugimbitia.

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