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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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The First white man among the Maragoli was?

-: Who is awake? I have a question and a prize!
- Ehe

-: I am awake. Just come from a meeting out of Nairobi. Ask your question. Sidika

-: Late bird. Affinity!

The quiz is, what year of purpose did Britons enter Maragoli and who is the fond known Briton?

- Airtime Ksh 50

- Asante.

-: I can't remember but my late Dad used to talk so much about him and how he taught them to drink tea at Chavakali. I think it was ? Carey???? Francis. I might remember it later.

-: 😁😎. I don't know either. You saved my account.

But I have read of Rees (famously Bwana Rees who climbed a tree in some tropical forest and said, this is the place!). It came to be Friends Mission Kaimosi.

But Kaimosi wasn't a maragoli zone! That is year 1902.

The dispersal was from Kidundu. There up at Majengo. There is an old church building, first home and point of white man activity in Maragoli. Before Kaimosi.

- More of what is known?

-: I will also ask my elder sister. She might know. Sidika

-: It was Emory Rees, I also heard about him. My grand dad was one of his first African converts, he would refer to him as bwana Risi

-: Before going to Kaimosi he lived at Kidundu? Or the great Ndanyi was converted at Kaimosi?

Who gave them leads evorogoori? The Maseno parish?

Late night questions.

-: Yes the name my Dad kept saying was "(bwana risi)"

-: Not Ndanyi but Yohana Inji, my paternal grand father, Emory Rees first settled at Vihiga before moving to Kaimosi, the old church at Vihiga Sec. School was his first, Kidundu came much later

-: Getting.

Inji? Hahaha. The name been inherited?

Bwana Rees got mileage in the days of Joel Litu and Yohana Amugune. Right? Importantly due to the efforts of Bible translation. Like he took credit for efforts of all the missionaries.

-: Bible and gospel songs translations.

-: Following.

-: By the way guys, 99+ of the hymn songs in L'logoli were translated by my late dad, he went further and taught the church choirs, the reason why those very old folks can still sing songs with complicated bends and twists!

-: Following and taking notes.

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