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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...
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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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