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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...

30th or Oct 16? -AGM

[07/10 1:45 pm] Metrine Saniaga: Otherwise mzizagil'la ndi? Sioni
morale ya watu kumeet for our AGM! Did we settle on a date?
[07/10 1:47 pm] Metrine Saniaga: Mwakuchiring'ana sana m'mbeho? Anoho
mlitsa izingoko mwenya i table manners😋
[07/10 1:47 pm] Kibisu Joash: Date ni December 30th
[07/10 1:49 pm] Metrine Saniaga: Waah 30th🤦🏽‍♀ irorekana I'll miss
this thing! Y not earlier before or after 25th? Is everyone OK with
the date?
[07/10 2:26 pm] Kibisu Joash: Organise with chairman. I think its not
yet official
[07/10 3:43 pm] Baba Ndanyi: @⁨Metrine Saniaga⁩
Can u suggest another date in Dec, you are the most important official
in the AGM, the date must be in Dec but not Christmas day.
[07/10 4:15 pm] Metrine Saniaga: How about 16th
[07/10 4:18 pm] Baba Ndanyi: Ok let's see whether its acceptable to others.
[07/10 7:11 pm] ‪+254 727 060737‬: 30thDEC is appropriate
[07/10 8:03 pm] Baba Ndanyi: @⁨Metrine Saniaga⁩
Is it possible to reschedule your program to accommodate this date
30th Dec, you just have to be there, you cannot delegate please?
[07/10 8:05 pm] ‪+254 711 379383‬: 16th Dec is best
[07/10 8:09 pm] ‪+254 727 060737‬: Some of us tuko kwa jobs 16th is too early
[07/10 8:10 pm] Baba Ndanyi: @⁨Lung'afa⁩
@⁨Metrine Saniaga⁩
Can you please take a vote on the two dates, 16th and 30th Dec. for the AGM
[07/10 8:12 pm] Metrine Saniaga: Me too am employed but I'll be given
one week in Dec since my bro is wedding on the same week,a vote will
help select with the majority
[07/10 8:19 pm] Lung'afwa Muzami: Hopefully the date agreed upon will
find Metrine free. She is referral point. I wish to commit then. Will
be coming with a huge delegation of brothers and sisters.

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