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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...

Isuzi ihii, hambi komege.

-Megeri ku mondere mu kihinda 
-Waaah kusambaziriku
-Yiri irideka ria girigari? 
-Ororandi ni kwiga kodeka kari inze endegereree kuria 
-Ororogori nurudinyu,"hambi kuragiri ni suzi"????
-Utuchima tukavee hayi?
-Ivi ohenge uragwa nosekaa...
-Waree, ni ndio vadekaa isuzi? 
-Gafwanaa manyanye!
-Isuzu yene yakanyora i accident noho?
-Magu umunwa gwe isuzu zana!
-Uvirizi vurahi
-Uvichimu maguta da?
-Waaaah, megeraku!
-Ehenzaa vandu
-Eyo inzi ku mba! sande
-Meda amazi gu vuchima
-Umanyi kodeka isuzi daa ifwanaa vuvi!
-Mbura wareti komesa na mbee nzeng'ine mamare daa
-Ogeheeku kakereka kweri? 
-Yene yeyo mba, ifana vudamanu!
-Yivi uturizaa hai isuzi ni izara inumaa?
-Reka nzisave nzisundi ashimbi 
-Magu Sia amate ngatonyiaa
-Ororaa ku sia ekori munwa?
-Ndayera!

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