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Chahilu’s Funeral; Logooli Culture in action

Guuga Chahilu was respectfully laid to rest at his home on Saturday 14th June 2025. Having passed on at Mbale Referral Hospital on 31st May 2025, the two weeks leading to his burial were full of cultural discussions. His passing on is a great loss to the Logooli Language and Culture Family as he was a custodian and informer of Luhya Indigenous Knowledge. An observation as to how the funeral proceeded leads us to revist Logooli traditions amidst modern realities.  One, having left the house alive and now coming back in state, Chahilu was to be taken inside the house, placed muihiilu for a moment and then officially taken out in wait for earth burial. His casket was able to enter the doors. There are cases where the dead would find it difficult to be taken in and then out due to an oversized casket or thin door. A man or a lady of his house who died out of home has to be taken in the house for a last ritual mark. But if the person had died inside, he or she would not be brought bac...
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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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