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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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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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