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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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Maragoli tongue twisters

-‬: For those who love kiMara, like Patty, interpret this stubborn L'logoli saying 'Imbo mboo, isuu suu'. 😎😎😎

-: I thought it is: nimboo, mboo; ni suu, suu. These are rather vulgar if you read between the lines. It is a shortening of: ni mboye, mboye; ni suye, suye that roughly translates as: when I say, I have said; when I refuse, I have refused.

-: Simple terms is let yes be yes and no be no.

-: It means you either take it or leave it. 😂

-: It is 'Nimboo mboo, nisuu suu". Direct translation is " when I say yes, I mean yes; when I say no I mean no "

-‬: I am aware of the presence of 'n' but the stubbornness in the one saying it makes them deliberately swallow the 'n'

-‬: We used to have a drunken primary school teacher who would emphasize this phrase 'mmbo mboo nsu suu', in those days we used to have very great respect for the teachers even when dead drunk! 😎😎

-: An extension there would follow thus; 
- 'embo mboo
- 'embo semboo
- mboo ndi?
Or
- 'isu suu
- 'isuu sisuu
- 'suu ndi?

😁😁😁

-: Great, ngani mwaachanulwa! 🤓🤓🤓

-: Tongue twister is what? Kevoyovoyiza? 😂😂

Inzii inzi nzii. Inzii inzi sinzii. Inzi nzii ndi?

- Beautiful night family.

-‬: Igaamuula yaagamula naagamul'la

-: Imbuuza ihuuzi nikihuuzuuzu

-‬: Iganihizu yaaganihizwa numuganihizi

-: Nimbo mbo nisu su

-: Woooyee Iganihizu was my great, great, great, great.....x grandPa. What is the meaning of "Kuganihizwa"? ....

-: Novovereri vwekevera korora rovere rururi kokevere kinavoreve

Masia musigu yasia vusie nisu yisiaha asinzi isu

Kutanga kutunga mitungu nu kutunga kutanga mitungu.

🌞🌞Good morning!

-: Novoveri .... this has double or not clear meaning. A sentence carrying two ...."Orovere" nende "Ekevere" they are not related

-: 😳. How
Tit and udder aren't related?

-: If talking of orovere lwe ng'ombe, then maybe.... the tit and udder BUT in terms of a person.. then it is completely different. Tits for female (woman) mammary glands the upper part of chest and groin "ekevere" for the man - specifically - 'manege area'.

-: 🤭😁🤭. The tongue twister is about a cow. Not a person. Is it why @Erick Author laughed? You people!

😁😁😁😁

-: The pain should be felt by a person not a cow, so in this case the person had 'amanege' enlargement extra 'ekevere' and was painful 'havanavoleve!'

-: 😂😂. -navoreve can take place/subject/adjective/verb etc

It can also denote 'private'.

Kinavoreve/hanavoreve/munavoreve/kinavoreve

Majorly the word is a pronoun.

-: Mukinavoreve 😜😜😜🤣

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