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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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Saying 31

Garondekanaa shia mbuka

Madiku gano gaizura ritinguha. Mundu natenyaa kokora kindu, kogenderera wache, kwihana ku miyinzi amaa avora, 'Garondekanaa shia mbuka.'

Ni vwaha okovoreree nuvuki? Nivwaha arikokonya mu vutingu uturi mu? Nuvurahi dave. Vora 'Nyasaye nayanza kurakora' noho 'Dave, mbeye nu muyinzi gundi'. Su utasura mwoyo gwu wache numanyi uzizaa kohonga kondeve ha chiriri. Nuvurahi dave.

Riehana ku vandi nuvurahi. Onyoraa varina vingi kandi zingavi zinene. Ni gakuduka vajira ho varikwambura noho varikusioma ve girigari. Oveye mutumikiri wa vandu ni muyanzi wa Yahova. Avakwaa maguta, aguta vunyangani vunyingi. Hosi nagenda yiranaa mu mirembe. Inzu yeye ni ya vageni naye sagehaa kogenderera vandi dave.

Akotevaa vwiyangu vuvwo kari niva nu mwana ma ganyoreke soveye nu vwiyangu nu vurahi kumuvorera arombe vwiyangu vundi. Atevanji amaa arora riehana ririo. Amaa akuvugurira kuri mundu oveye nu mwoyo gwa vandi. Rinyagurira kusura nirirahi dave. Vuri rwosi umanye risingira na vandi.

Kari vitari nu vusundi vwu vwiyangu varara vakevoraa 'Nyasaye nayanza...' Kuri mundu nakuzi na genyekaa aduki ku mukuzu. Yaho kandi kovore shu uva nuvuchi? Dave. Kari niva wagehizira vandu virenge, mwaza tavitirira mba, kivara nichomenya mu murara mba. Kijira nuzizagirira ndio ma kohevwe madiku hasi hi riguru nuwerorere guwaakoreraa vandi nigakwiranira.

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