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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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For the Welfare Team, the need.

Jane Bwonya: Tumi amang'ana yengo ku vasenge vamuhenzere avakana valahi vataveye avaseve.

Baba Ndanyi: Avakana avalahi avaveeye nisang'aari, uhul'laa Patrick??! 😎😎

Lung'afa: 🙈🙈🙈🙈. Mbul'laa

Jane Bwonya: Avakana avalahi ni miima; ligondo dave. Anoho ovoraa Ihuoma mu Elechi Amadi's The Concubine?

Evans Muhali: Vasaniaga, milembe mwosi... I'm relatively new here and the first thing I heard being discussed was ivane for bereaved members. I have a proposal to make regarding us having a Benevolent fund that we can fall back to whenever a member is bereaved. I'm proposing that we come up with a welfare wing of this group and that each member raises 10k to be deposited in an account and the money to be used whenever a member is bereaved instead of waiting for donations. My proposal is as follows. The treasurer buys a New Mpesa/ Airtel money line specially for the collections. We give ourselves,say, ten months for each member to deposit 10k into the account. For those who can raise the total amount, please do, but for those who can't,they can pay 1k every month for the ten months in order for all of us to raise 10k. A bank account to be opened for this money then we agree for example that if a member looses a relative,and in this case we should define which relatives qualify for a member to be assisted, we donate 1k each for quick disbursement to the bereaved family and then each member is informed and immediately returns the 1k to the account so that we at all times have 10k each in the account. If all members agree, I think this is a faster way of assisting members in emergency situations. My suggestion.

Lung'afa: Evans, a beautiful idea. We have not responded well to the few cases we have heard of bereavement. And the Welfare Team goes beyond beyond  incidences of funeral. We got saniaga elders who are poor, no food and clothes, kids in school...And such. So we need a super Welfare Team.

Last time we called for a volunteer to head the Team. Would you please head it? Then during AGM members may see to what best?

Thanks

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