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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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Risara riu mukiguti che ridasa

Vwaha asaraa? Vwaha asaraa? Karechi sare.

Dada witu oveye mwiguru henza kisundi chakaduka. Kwakenya kwirane mu madara. Ukwiranyie yo vwera. Konyore ni varuji.

Kusaraa ne kovora kwakaruha. Kunyagurizani miriviti mu vunyasi yivu kari masienero gakubi kivi. Kijiraa ni kunyagurizana no korondana kuri zinyamanyama kijira kesero Yivi Mwene wamanya.

Ve mirugu ovahenze vurahi. Igasi yavo nu kudumura vivuyi ma kesero kichama kehenza embega yindi. Gehiza zinguru zivitiriraa yizio mbura vahenzaa wi zigori zivee.

Kandi vandi ku vaimana. Vanyoo ku kesero venyaa vaturi nacho mu vugika vavitira ku virenge via vandi. Venyaa vamanyie shia vamanya kweveta mu egori yavene. Vwimani vwene yivwo mpaka gave nu vwa yengo. Vutangii mu kiguti mba.

Ohe vi mitwi midinyu mioyo miangu. Vatahuriraa mang'ana. Vayanza korembana mu kiguti, vihana ku rishena vandi, vasiragiraa kuri varoji. Yiki ni kiguti, zisimbu mba.

Vi kisiri wavamanya. Rienya riavo no korora vandi vavunichi virenge, kari vanyara kusiena ku ring'oti. Viviriraa vanyaguriranji umupira ma viduyana kuri zimbago. Ku vayuma. Risara ni ndi, osorere vakinaa kehoma, vatenyaa kusaririza vandi, vayanza vukinu.

Ma ukwizurizi mu rinyora. Henza kusienaaza virenge hasi. Masanda gaturaa vuri nyinga. Kuvura zinguvu ziu kukuba risero, gajira embega ndara inavuri itigare viritu viere. Maria vindu via kumaa kororaa! Ku ni virombe vivio. Sigenyaa kuhugi dave.

Koveeho na gandi manyingi ga nzari ndeve navuza umweri guvura. Vana yava vanyara kuvita na magomia ga vandu. Umweri gurava ku kwari kove kukiduyanaa mirugu. Mu madiku gazaa oreke mweri govezange mujima vuri diku. Ku kukina kuduka havuchera.

Ni kutavora risara riu mwami saviraa vasariyi karunu. Vadinyi vareke ridende. Miviri jadombera jinyaraa kiguti mba. Ku rwa ma kwagane mugamba vosi nakove kwetegechi kuhagana.

Risara riu Mwami....

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