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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 24

Arere zeyi vava wandari ninzia kunu saga

Trans; I don't know I had gone elsewhere why*

Arere nokovora a-manyiraki?, dave, ndio mba. Zeyi nokovora vuzwa. vava nukusura. Wandari nekovora havundu. Zia nukuturaho. Kunu nukumanyia ihare, kuzia nukuzia. Saga nokovora nuzia ki?

Yiru rugano rwivarangwa ku mundu mukari aveye havundu na vakari vandi vamoromanga nivafananga kuri vahing'anaa murimoroma. Ku murara kuvo atevangwa mang'ana naye nafana kuri ajibanyiaa murimoroma. Ku nirwo rwayezenzevuranga kutura mu nukwisuha nukwambakana. Muno vujira muzimbaka.

Kwigaa kutava vandu vukugukira vandu mang'ana gutarori nezimoni zizio. Utava mwambakani numwizuvi nukuhing'anira mashioro govezanga nokori dave. Ganyara kuduka havundu ganyoreke negirigari ma gakwononyiri rieta noho gakoretaniri inditi, kutumagiriza viguma viamahi giviharato virijira udave neviherano nutura zingeri namariga.

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