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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...

Our Origin is Girongoi near Banja

-: What is the name of your friend? Sally is a daughter of my late uncle who didn’t marry the mother. Our origin is girongoi near ibanja. It’s a tried of Maragoli/ Nandi/ Luos. My other cousins speak fluent Nandi and broken Maragoli. My grandma died after injuries from tribal wars in 1970. My grandpa Isaac Akidiva died in 1961. We were moved to our present home as a security measure not all be killed during tribal wars. Grandpa used to go into Kaimosi forest to get traditional herbs to treat non healing tropical ulcers( iliguri) successfully. I inherited the art/science of Medicine from him. He was not saniaga. My mother was umusaniaga. Sidika

-: I guess you're directing the question to me - my friend is called Benbella Ayiego. Interestingly he's also a medic - a clinical officer

-: Was your uncle called "Kesogote"? And was that the dad?

-‬: I have friends from ibanja like Kadasia who had a grandfather named Akidiva, are u related. They converted to islam

-: Yes my Grandpa’s name is Akidiva. We also have relatives in wahamisi. Sidika

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