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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...

Kukizia. Na kuduki za

Lung'afa: Nikuriduka wakuzizaa nekove nu vwiyangu vwi ziseko. Nunu kivara chahandal'la.

Lung'afa: Kogendaa nikwikivuka.

Kigwa Kidaywa: Vwira vamwavo......inze mbe mgeni mumba mno lakini ndora kove nindi mganda gwi chama.....fana mundu anyara kombola govendi kijira nyenya kwingiramu

Lung'afa: Yee Kigwa. Kwakavaku hango hano muhiga ni kindu. Kushiraa ni nusu. Umganda gwi chama guziril'laa vurahi. Nu vurahi wenyaa kwingiramu. Ku manyingi unyara kungubira kwavol'lana. Noho mundu wosiwosi yaha avee mu. 

- Karibu

Kigwa Kidaywa: Ooh sawa amwavo....vananga Najori myaye msachi ....kigwa kidaywa ni nickname vuzwa....reka ngocheki mu inbox koyoge..asande kungaribisha

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