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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...

Dakitari angayi marwa gandanwezaa...

Avadakitari mweyenyera vuza viramo vene,inzi mbe namarago girivugana ku mutwi, nzii mu chemist kugura runyasi, dakitari ambe ma angayi, ndatanwaku amarwa nimira zinyasi dave, nainzi nwezaku amarwa dave,mbuli vururu sana, ikivi kimuronde.

-Kerevi
-Hahaa, akogeehi
-Amanyiza okombaaku mnyaa
-Lakini unwezaku tuzi TWA vasakuru
-Hamoni hamanyiaza, ware!
-Navuza inzaga vuza yuhunga
-vandu varara vaturiza marango vakora uvwoni
-Vakumanya vurahi
-Haaa, magu siovee ne zishinda
-Na mokoraaki mubar
-Roho guvuraa havuravu
-Iviramo vagaya
-Pole mwirwazi kivaronde kabisa
-Hiiiii baga za dakitari akugaye, chigira marwa gagarukiza zinguru ziu runyasi hasi, reka marwa
-Hamoni hoho hamanyiaa yive ni murevi, kandi ahurii mwika gwi chang'a
-Kari mwana nakororaza aramanya umaa unwezaa
-Mboo ahenzi ku isura yoyo namanya ohongaa munyengero siove basta rigari kamilifu dave
-Nigirigari utanwa marwa dave noho ohona dave
-Daktari ave vuza vurahi chigira amadiku gano ivivwa viayivika ivisero vya amagondi
-Muta manya mwirwazi kedete dave


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