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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...

Kuhiza Igunga

(Igunga, kunzira, imbuza ihuzaa)

Govedi: Mwanitu, madiku gano uriraa ku kijiko.

Uside: Vwaha nakugada?

Govedi: Vava, Mbano

Uside: Umanye Mbano yenyaa ngosane nivi

Govedi: Noho?

Uside: Vaya. Igo ga yenyaa. Navuza umbol'le, umbol'le vurahi. Nindaagosana nivi, ndagosana naye kutanga. Vuvi sana.

(Vagwa mu ziseko)

Govedi: Kokoraaki Igunga mwanitu?

Uside: Kuhizaa

Govedi: Kuhizaaki?

Uside: Iriauwa

Govedi: Mauwa gavee ku da!

Uside: Kuhizaa ganiara. Zinzuki zianuna vonoru vwosi. Mbura kwakaya ku nakunyi

Govedi: Ndachaya vandu vikikari. Ndavachaya muno.

Uside: Yivi nuzizagirira kuchaya ne vandu vazizagirira kuzia imbiri.

Govedi: Imbiri ki?

(Vahenza munzira Viyaro. Mukana atul'lii yo)

Uside: Wovo noho wange?

Govedi: Witu.

Uside: Kusange?

(Rwu mukana adukaa shimbi vakara rimoroma riavo)

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