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Heavy responsibilities for elder aunt among the Logooli

With Seenge Fonesi. She is the elder grand daughter of Isagi and elder daughter of Amugasya. She is often present in functions involving the family of Amugasya. Pic taken on 18/4/2024. The elder sister soon becomes the elder aunt. It is this “seenge munene” (elder aunt) tag that she is tied to many cultural responsibilities – back home. To her marital family she may appear as any other woman, but she is not so in the eyes of her people. Marriage does not steal her away as it would happen with other daughters of the old man. To her, as days go and the old man and woman of the estate are dependents, she becomes increasingly present.  Her brothers also need her for almost all traditional markings. They are marrying, she needs to welcome the new wife. They are giving birth, she needs to come to midwife or “bless” the new born. They are paying dowry she needs to lead the women delegate. There is a conflict she needs to come for a hearing.  And many others. Traditions does not expect her to
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Identity or Heritage? Which one?

-: To find out the claim of saniagas relation with sakwa kamnara, we need to know in which year the coinage of 'kamnara' was popular, then estimate the time the saniaga came to maragoli. The tale that saniaga is a relation of sakwa kamnara is a strong  one in fact. A fact we need to understand is whether before separation, the two lived in vihiga, Nyanza or kalenjin lands. To me it looks like it was a cycle of a wonderer trying to settle. Then as a result of wondering, generations were born, maybe only one or two because this is history that is not so much a distant past. Then brothers separate, one choosing this destiny and the other one that. Though they still remain with the understanding that they are related, they pass it on and it becomes a common theory among the families. Another jocker is here, saniaga are among the clans referred to as avamenya among the maragoli. The meaning is obvious, our knowledge of maragoli lands must  have been earlier before the coming of murogori. But the fact that some murogori descent clans like kizungu are many and seem to be of many generations before may not qualify murogori to have come to maragoli earlier than saniaga. A question I paused is why the saniaga seem to know more of maragoli history than even the murogori descent clans. An answer could be in the fact that saniaga were this wondering brothers, who like a father will lay claim to several pieces of land here and there, this son is told to go here, and the other one there. In the end they are living apart, this one adapting this language and the other one that. In the end they seem to be two different people when they are actually one. The reason why I use the the word wondering may not actually mean they lack a place of abode, rather that they move together as a family until legitimacy of ownership to land is established. Then this is told 'go back here' and this one there. Therefore accordingly , saniaga settlement in maragoli was a come back rather than an original settlement. Please look at this. @Lung'afa .

-: Kazi kwetu...

-: Puzzling. And I would ask, could Saniaga be an identity rather than a heritage? That during the name coining 'all those who seemed so' became Kamunaras?
- We are into it!

-: Pray, enlighten me.. What's the difference!!?

-: It is like saying you were of Axis side during a world war and in forgetting it was a come together over time. Like what NASA is. 😆😂😁

-: Still at sea 🤷🏾‍♂🤷🏾‍♂🤷🏾‍♂😃

-: Rove quicker. Your boat too slow.

Saniaga could have been an identity. What I mean here is a people brought together by situation/circumstances. It could be a geographical place, physical nature, a language, a ritual, a philosophy. Back then I mean. We got to research.

And not likely a heritage, the claim of one ancestry. And this would raise eyebrows.

How is the weather now at sea? Rove, rove harder! 😁😁

-: Oooohhh!!! Ah!

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