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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...

Animal Names

-‬: @Lung'afa
Kibuusi is not L'logoli - kibaga

-: Pussy,  paka... Vyaraa kuho luswahiri nurusungu nirutaiza kweri!!?

-: I pick kibaga because many original luhya words are still there in Kiswahili.

-: Eg mbwa and imbwa

-: Imbwa I doubt. There is a word for a dog.

Lion is not isimba/king'ang'a. Somebody told me Idaranyi. Hehe

: Imbwa could be the shortening of isiimbwa, either way, still close to Swahili.

-: King'ang'a in my view is beast.

-: I tend to think most of these wild animals names are there in maragoli Bible. We can use it as a temporary benchmark. Anyone with it? Let me try find one on Google.

-‬: Reero mrakovehera vuza

-: Isiimbwa is Idakho.

-: 😂, am not coming across maragoli Bible in my play store. But sure I used to read it when I was a kid and it had a lot of vocabulary.

-: Na ndevaa hee. Ivibuusi vyaaraho umusungu nataaza!? Vitarwaaku my folklore and our folktales!? Zisimbwa yizyo zyaari Ho for sure,  kigira avahiizi varaa  nazyo mu zingano.

-: King'ang'a is the general word for beast. You can say King'ang'a chakava yaha which could be engo (leopard) or imbiti (hyena).

-‬: I've got one,navutswa kaveye tattered.

-: Imbwa is foreign. The way kibuusi is. The way kekombe is.

-: Imbwa, ikibaga, eng'oombe, imburi, iligoondi, isukiri(ipuunda), ing'wiina, iking'ang'a, emboongo, embogo, ilikinieeli, etc, all these animals existed before wazungu came, imbizi yaali imbwa yukuhiiza naho yukuhiima.

-: Ilikinieeli hicho ki mruswahili?

-: Imbizi. That's it. Not imbwa

-: Imbizi is a wild pig.

-: Kivwa is jackal, the wild dog

-: Ing'wina is a crocodile.

-: Mbol'langwa ndi ilikinieli limenyi mu magina. We do not know what it is in English because we have not seen it.

-: Kivwi is a fox, yes or a jackal

-: Rock hyrax..

-‬: Mangidi ni inyama ki mu lusungu?

-: Mangidi is mystical, it's like rinani in maragoli folk tales.

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