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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...

Books for Africa Appeal

Now, as we wait for the blood moon, would you help me in writing the mail? I think all of us want the library have some books. Here is an institution that can do that. What if they received more than twenty E-mails? Each of us expressing the need to have them? We won't go wrong, right? So please write an email and send it to the address said. If you want contacts included, quote to them saniaga.org ... S-CBO Library.... saniaga.blogspot.com ... If you have written and sent, cross fingures. When books come there will be  no one to take credit for 'all of us' wrote.

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