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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...

Achi nunzahira vurwaye vwi zimoni?

-‬: Lungafa yazia hayi mea
-: mwanoyo yagoyana kari mang'ana gege kwarekeraza Nyasaye
-: namkonye
-‬: Ndori narizaa havundu mihembe
-: yeyo yo evidence ndi yagoyana
-: mndu mhindira nasingirindi kunzira arizaa mihembe
-‬: Yarage nu mkari undi ndi
-: hu mkari yao ugadira rung'afa...yivi orora natuji irisu ama natugi umkari
-‬: Aguranji kuye mihembe suviri
-: ku nari arasanji imistari
-‬: Ammbolanji sha avee ningida yi virenge v'vaga
-: namgada umdoga gwayari nagwo nigwigwe
-‬: Yee
-: mwana umbara sana
-‬: Mwana mwenuyo arimenyandi mkivarimu
-: yagoyana rwafa
-‬: Gwuma amkonye
-: yavora wamenyi mganga numtendeve...amwahiri
-: Mnyara kokora vurahi havitina ni zimbemba. Mwagunza na vakere sana
-: ati mganga, wah
-: ama umganga hoyo niye amuyingiza
-: Viyingwa : Inzi nunu Mbee sede : Account yange izizagiriraa vurahi: Vuri nimuvora rieta riange vamedaa isirinji mubank
-: karivi ugwi umganga noho
-‬: Agwii mganga, rero kukami
-: Nuwenyaa runyasi rwu kuvura kudaka zibundles ondore harovega
-‬: Na rwukuria mihembe ku mdoga?
-: Kandi ondore
-‬: Nyenya runyasi rwukukunga rusaa ku madako ga vandu vakari
-: Kava kooku mu chemist
-: Rwenurwo uvura?
-: mwashi bure kabisaa
-: Kokekoraa research
-: Vurwaye vwakira
-‬: Anoho arwara vurwaye vwange yivu kuyenyi runyasi ronyoreke dae
-: hehe rung'afa yarwara vurwaye vwenivwo sana
-: Ki kandi na Teddy? Akogoyanyiaa
-: Teddy aveezavurahi...istory yeyo kurasoma garaha garaha
-: Yasiruha
-: L'logori rwamutama
-: Oyo na Gwuma
-: Yeyo soma dae. Rungafa reta runyasi
-: Otengel'lee?
-‬: Yee, ridako riviti yaha rinoru sana
-: Rironde koo
-: Rifaanaza ria Ambany
-: Ambany avura ridako l'lahi
-: Mbeye na rough picture
-‬: Yivi waroraku ambany kweri mmbano?
-: Akiri
-: Nakindi
-: Ndal'lora vurahi sana...sidhani niva rive rinoru sana
-: Vukinu da
-‬: Navuza umanye nikindu cha rungafa chukwinyara
-: Awa rung'afa sidhani niva atemaku
-: Kunzaravira engerosi
-: Manyia chicho
-: Vovo vayumagana gagaga
-‬: Rungafa utemeku ku mwana ura mea
-: munyi mkiri kororaku ridako llahi dae
-: Chokora varanzivira isimu munyi
-‬: Mmbano sasa yivi wayanza zi flat screens zia kiambu na muranga, kukukonyendi?
-: zienizio zio zia rung'afa yayanza
-: Inzi ndayanza ridako rinyara kwizura mukihinda chu kwaha majani
-: wamanya kihinda cha majani sakereng'ana kweri?
-‬: Manyi vurahi mundu waa
-‬: Teddy avee hayi?
-: Ndagiraa
-: Mea wayanza india sana
-: Nokorandi mkivara yimu?

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