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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...

You my relative. You are.

Evans Muhali: I'm one of the bereaved families...Mzee Kivutse is my father.. He's Lung'atso's grand son and so is my father. Lung'atso had five wives. Then Elias...the one that was killed by a tractor in Kitale is my father too. He's the last born in my father's family. We burried Mzee Elias last Thursday and Mzee Kivutse is being burried on Saturday.

Metrine Livole: Do you know a saniaga in kitale known as Eliakim Lung'azo?

Evans Muhali: I have heard of him infact yeye ndio alishugulikia matanga ya Mzee Elias in Kitale he is my relative but unfortunately we haven't met

Metrine Livole: Oh! He's my uncle, who lives in mitoto amongst other saniagas in kiminini.

Evans Muhali: That makes you my family

Metrine Livole: Yeah! great to meet you.

Evans Muhali: It's a pleasure...what a Small world it is!!!!

Jeska sidika Wambani: Good morning all. True We always even judge each other on some mistakes or mishaps in their life. Let's look at the many good deeds and acknowledge each other. Now about the menu. Has anybody visited Sosa and got any news for us? Rest and rise well. Sidika

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