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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...
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The best of our elders are Beggars

The best of our ageing men and women have opted to begging and living in despondency at our own looking with least efforts in place to curb the quickly growing trend.

You knew Musakuru Nareve would now be so poor after accumulating so much of Vuyari and Vunyari while still a person wiviriga? He had a good home, children, neighbours, relatives. He was a teacher that everyone called him as truly one. During his tenure as a key person in Company Why he wouldn't fail to help here and there, and now, as he sits lonely, with no one to salute him assumes a picture as if he had lived the careless of the most lives, repelling success, cursed, outcasted and forth. No, not so. Life but turns around and with time situations happen when you most needy.

So they sit, our ageing wise men, alone, hungry, land sold, children in Nairobi, neighborhood hostile - no one cares how he woke or slept, whether he ate or showered, whether he is sick or not. By a small kind of disturbance they are repelled, these old men who never really control outbursts, no one need take them seriously but to extend a hand of love, care, understanding, engagement and general friendship.

How often haven't we heard when they said, 'I am hungry' or 'I am not feeling well' but went about our business thinking it is normal to say you hungry or their age allows them to complain of malady? We have had to chase some away from our homes such a crude treatment that have turned some of our old men to big time liars, instead of wise stories they invent money minting words and instead of wishing the young well they look at them as a foreign generation, disconnected from theirs. It is against the thoughts of good breeding, people who grow up caring for others. And those can imagine their later lives to come.

And how worth is their input if these good people were engaged in all round social sessions, giving their offer to decisions, being handled with cherish, allowed to advance their interests, respected and hallowed. Don't we lose the most refined amongst us when we disengage the elderly? Don't we rush and later stumble because we lacked experiences worth sustaining. Haven't we turned to neglect and therefore shredded social links? And don't our elders complain or feel lonely even when we are around them? We have fallen short.

May you have an accommodative day, won't you?

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