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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...

Nyenyaa orete wenoyo!

-: baaaas
-: Vayimanya
-: Eti Samantha. Mbano yamanya Samantha kweri?
-: awa mmanyi dae
-: yani rung'afa yivi ni mihiga jijo yiji ukidiscasa samantha? kabisaa kabisaza noho
-: Samantha nu mukana munondi
-‬: Rungafa wenya zimbimbo
-: Vakana vanondi vosi ni Samantha.  Inzi iye mboraa!
-: awa dae rung'afa vandu vamakura gogo yaga vamoromera vindu vya maana kuri mita gavaha vana vavo
-: Kuri shavareta mkari wa kavaga
-: Mwamanya kovora. Yaha inzi niye genyekaa ndete wukumaliza.  Teddy azizagilaa ndi?  Mwanitu yayihana ku musigo. Maria!
-: Vwaha arimwambura?  Rono nohogu. Inzi nyara dae
-: nutahenza soon nakukuturizi yimu
-: vandu vahenza savareta vakari wa kavaga na yivi nufwana ogoyana
-: yivi utange korekana nukutara vanga samantha havandu vahindira vave...mea umanye age wise nivi ove imbiri
-: Odegerizaa Vwaha?  Ovee ingungi sana
-: Inzi nendete rwa ninyanze
-: mea ohenzeriza vakari nizinyumba zya vandu sana...wenyaki?
-: Nyaa mbakonye
-: Nivukikiri ndi
-: awa yivi ndoraku vokonyi vwuha mndu dae
-: Reka kongola kehenyehenye.  Unzaraviraaki?
-: yani mndu nakovola gadodo aveza nakuzaravi
-: Usuviraa inzi nu musiru kovora vakana vanondi ni Samantha?
-‬: Rungafa urete mkari
-: Hulaga kindi
-: Gona
-‬: Mea yivi urete, kindicho ketengelee omotozaa hayi?
-: rung'afa yivi badala yukutyma mganga mtendovo naruji ku uzya komegaho ndoraza ohenze mkari
-: yani kuvakana vogenda navo yava vosi avekuho worora anyara kodeka dae?
-‬: Mwanoyo yaramwa
-: Mwenyaa ndete ku mutange kosekeriza
-‬: Awa, kukujage kukuvayira
-: Yivi tanga orete ku kuzange kukuyavira
-: Kuvaya dave
-‬: Nkt, mkana wuwari naye ura avee hayi
-: Uriha
-‬: Yari ni kiblausi cha yelloo
-: Hahaha.  Kari Marion ajira ni cha yellow
-‬: Wenuyo yari mwimbi ku marion
-: Yari na madako?
-: Yee
-: Oh.  Yari na madako nu undi.
-‬: Nyenya urete wenoyo
-: Magu vukindu mnarobi, vamkiri koreta mirembe.

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