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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...

We killing Ul'logori, Gudahi Kaiga

Happy Birthday to Gudahi Kaiga. He is 84! and goes strong. This is one man, simple to the core, self initiated to linguistics and can keep one awed at his collection of knowledge. He is however upset by the many people who participate in killing ul'logori in their many ways. If you do not support the course, to him, you are aimed to destroy it. One thing today, apart from the life celebration of lows and highs, he said that the only letter in Lulogooli that can be abbreviated is 'l'. Ururimi- Ul'limi is an example he gave. Further, as by him, there are seven vowels in Lulogooli. Seven! Also, there are vowel-come-consonants in the language.  An example? 'Duya'. Du is not just a sylabble in da de di do du flow. It is pronounced as 'duf', at the palate, lips held. Same to 'ny' which is more of 'n'ny' in pronunciation. Interested, the support he last received, and the person who showed thanks was from Berkely, USA. We, the Africans are indeed a third world, he repeated. So we owe him as he owes us, in this life.

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