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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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A mental picture of our fore fathers?

Pic by Julie Mahasi: Leki kuzie back to the archives. Luvamba lwa Vasaniaga. Our ancestors. Koza was guga na senge was baba Gasidi. 

Lung'afa: 😳😳

Thank you for this pic. 

It will become our official Ancestral emblem. Vakuru* vitu. 

Do do do do!

Neccy Flossy: They look a bit miserable and weak although they seem mid-aged. Any livened pics 4 the emblem?

Julie Mahasi: This are my family lineage. Valogoli from here. They were not blue band generation to be big and in suits. The old man was my grandfathers uncle and the young woman called Gasidi was my dads senge. Anybody expecting to see very neatly dressed ancestors must be an ancestor himself

Lung'afa: @⁨Neccy Flossy⁩, 😊😊😊. What is your imagery of your hierarchical Ambale?  

If your lineage 'woke' you would 'wish not to have been'. 

Call it all but savage life, as Julie has hinted, did not have blue band. They had all the afflictions. You would not share a modern house. 🤭🤭. 

Anyways, we sometimes feel proud of our forefathers but a fraction of our essence is not belonging. We curse the 'human' nature. Could be we first got made with steel and all intelligence bestowed? Unfortunately we are the 'abhor' of civilisations to come. 

May 'Saniaga' himuselefu not hear us. 🤭🤭🤭. We beseech him.

Neccy Flossy: I even do not have  Ambale's picture, i have no clue of his looks but might be pointed to a bit of current looks of iGanihizu, a little bit of a current Lusigi, more of a current Agesa, with a mix of Asava and a new Ambale, Chahiru, iLunda.. a Mudome? Figure them looks, with a kaptula, bare foot and uppers, tall and thin with 'iliharo' in his hand.. Hanging kind of coat on the shoulders, no picture. A shrude livestock trader🧐🧐👀👀👀

Lung'afa: Some deep cocktail 😎😎. not forgetting a little bit of you in him. 

With his cows and their smell, a stammerer in pretence so that he undervalues and overvalues when he himself is selling. Heel overgrown, effects of long walks, a vagabond who let the whole of Mbale taken by avakoza. A sojourner. 

😆😆😆. @⁨Mourice Ganihizu⁩ come here and defend the founder of our town. He must have looked like you...save what??

Neccy Flossy: You actually nailed there Lingafs.. Ambale we are told was actually a stammrer!!!!!! The Ganihizus actually stammer yo this day.most of them🙊🙊🙊🙊. Add 'ulugada' frantically puffing away, smoking as a chimney havjng not made a sale in frustration😜😜😜😜

Lung'afa: 😎. Take Lungs. Dr. Sidika coined it. And she calls it veeeery aristocratically. 😀. 

Yes, I was with Iganihizu and he did hint Ambale. 200-250 years ago?

 Yes. An ambitious man at vain. Having walked ten streams to Kiboswa for nothing.  The way could have been to Kegoye, Gisambai, Kinu, Kapsengere...those vectors. Because trade routes were Seremi-Kiboswa-Kisumu. 

Our forefather hummed lonely and was motivated by what was in endende hung at the shoulder. Mavere mavofu. Were it not for mapera and zindangareri, seeking for the dropped avocados that did ripe from the ground, rubbing off mamonyo on some, he would quit his trade. But being a Saniaga he sought no excuse. 😀😀

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