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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...

Saniaga Kamchiriri

Varara nivahenza kuvasaniaga, shavadinya mitwi, vandu vatasundwaa,  vigingiriri muvikorwa viavo, ruguru rwa vavikaa muvikorwa nuvurara vwavo mavagenyaa navo. Varomba vurina ivusaniaga viduyiraa kuvunyari voveeyo, irisuvira riavo, rikasana, rienya imirembe nerieremeriza riavo.

Nuvwanguzandi rwa vasaniaga vatanji kuvugirira riamiha novonene vwu ruyari. Hanyumaho vasuraa uvugutu, uvuchifu, uvurindi mumaganisa. Vevoraa kuva vandu vegehizu, haki azia kwamiha rwa yari avuganeza ma yirane hango? Rwazanirwo vavuguraa vana vavo vavashira muzisukuru, vazie kosoma verombere rimenya.

Risarana riavo riaranda ihare nihare. Henza kuri vazia Imagombe mumadiku gene gara. Vayivirira varaaku yinu. Rwivuru rwavo rwazugana navandu vizihiri zindi. Vamoromaa zimoroma zindi. Kivuni kivura kijiraa vandu rwavanaraa kivara mavazugana navandi mavigaa rimenya rishia. Navuza rwu mundu amaravaa zinganagani amaa atanga kwenyeririza kumanya wayatura.

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