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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...

Rung'afa ring'aha ria yang'aha...

-: koveho garaha mea
-‬: Suviri mragii
-: Yivi.  Ororaa Mbano da?
-: komejiho kusaandizi
-: Mragii nivurahi
-: yivi umarii kuria mchere?
-‬: Mgamba kandi numragiri
-‬: Ovee imbiti sana, mchere nugwanga rung'afa na gwuma
-: yee...venavo michere kwavarekera
-‬: Varizaza mchere ni iturunji
-: mavakuba zipicha kandi
-‬: Yee, vashenzi sana
-: vandu vifuria kabisaa
-‬: Kwanza mnyaa wi zimbiriginyi ku mtwi ura
-: Mundu mwere kabisaa...mwenuyu ngotwa arikonywandi...kari mganga yagerizaku kumkonya yatamwa
-‬: Mganga anyariza dae, fana madam wi nasari amkonye
-: kari vamadam venya mndu aragira...vandu vayanza michere vamadamu vavenya da
-‬: Agirigare, ku akorendi?
-: Uyu rwafa mea...rwafa
-: Rung'afwa rwafwa
-‬: Osi kari
-: kumanyi dae mea
-: Azie ateve ivusaniaga
-: Kari kumanyi ivusaniaga da
-‬: Ateve marion
-: Marion numkana msaniaga ngani?
-‬: Osi, manyidae
-: Ama afwana msaniaga... Ndagaya Lung'afa areke kogeriza kotemaku ahuriraa dae
-‬: Rungafa nu mndu mahula kweri?
-‬: Rung'afa ki kivi
-: Achi nogona
-‬: Ngone sai nangiri kuria mea
-: Ukuza dae
-: Vandu vadekerwaa na mama... Nkt
-: Inzara nimbi mea
-‬: Yivi odekerwaa na baba?
-: rung'afa yivi odekerwaa na vwaha
-: Na Marion
-‬: Rungafa ring'aha rya yang'aha yirio nikuri adekerwa nu mndu msaza
-: hehe rung'afa ati odekerwaa nugusaza yeyo
-‬: Ole yani
-: rinyangana
-‬: Yadamba
-: teddy tanga urindi kumarane na rung'afa
-‬: Rung'afa wakuria?
-: Ngonaaa
-‬: Sawa

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