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Heavy responsibilities for elder aunt among the Logooli

With Seenge Fonesi. She is the elder grand daughter of Isagi and elder daughter of Amugasya. She is often present in functions involving the family of Amugasya. Pic taken on 18/4/2024. The elder sister soon becomes the elder aunt. It is this “seenge munene” (elder aunt) tag that she is tied to many cultural responsibilities – back home. To her marital family she may appear as any other woman, but she is not so in the eyes of her people. Marriage does not steal her away as it would happen with other daughters of the old man. To her, as days go and the old man and woman of the estate are dependents, she becomes increasingly present.  Her brothers also need her for almost all traditional markings. They are marrying, she needs to welcome the new wife. They are giving birth, she needs to come to midwife or “bless” the new born. They are paying dowry she needs to lead the women delegate. There is a conflict she needs to come for a hearing.  And many others. Traditions does not expect her to
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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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