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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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Laugh and smile in Bantu languages

The post was on Facebook and I followed up at the comments section, catching what other tribes say in relation.

Here I write

Laugh, Smile; Tribe, Country
Hleka, kuncuma; IsiXhosa, SA
Nyenya, tsenga; Setswana, BOTS
Sega, myemyela; Sepedi, SA
Khucheha, khumenya; Samia, KE
Hleka, bonyozena; Tsonga, MOZ
Usea, unwenwela; Venda, SA
Seka, mwentula; Kaonde, ZAM
Seka, mwetamweta; Tonga, ZAM
Hleka, mwayitela; Tsonga, SA
Chekha, mwenya, Bukusu, KE
Seka, mwenyukila; Ngonde, MAL
Ts'eha, hobobothela; Sesotho, LES
Yola, menya; Shindonga, NAM
Huzeha, mwenya; Gisu, UG
Seka, mwenya; Luganda, UG
Seka, mweturira; Chichewa, MAL
Hleka, moyizela; isiZulu, SA
Theka, kweng'a; Kamba, KE
Theka, mweura; Kikuyu, KE
Heka, menyamenya; Thimbukushu, NAM
Twenga, mwenyura; Kirundi, BUR
Seha, menya; Lozi, ZAM
Sheka, mwenya; Runyankore, UG
Yola, memeha; Shiwambo, NAM
Seka, mwentula; Bemba, ZAM
Hleka, bobotheka; isiNdebele, ZAM
Seka, nyemwerera; Shona, ZIM
Tsega, nyenya; Setswana, BOT
Seka, munyamunya; Zigula, TZ
Seka, mwenya; Maragori, KE

This short piece is in observance that 'seka' is dominant. Hl/ch/kh are a few.

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Anzugira Odanga: Koseka(laugh) and kumwenya(smile)

Erick Author: I watch a lot of south African soaps on e-Africa and I'm always amazed at how much I can understand especially languages like Tsipedi and Setswana without reading the English subtitles. We have so many words in common eg ingubo, amazi, ingelosi, inguluve etc etc they even say umunaa where we say umunyaa and kunakana to mean kuganagana.

Vincent Iramuka: Its easy to pick out the Bantu tongues

Lung'afa: Yes. L'logori is near to them than Bukusu, Idakho, Kisa...

Therefore the Murogori that is said to have come from Misri down the Nile a disaster to connect. 😊

Baba Ndanyi: May be there is a link somewhere, sailing by boat from Misri, land in South Africa then naughty ones trying to trace their way back stopping at Lake Inyanza 😆😆😆

Mudengani Kisia: Quite interesting

Peter Kirima: Scrolled through a scientific article few years ago that tested Tutsi DNA samples which clarified the ancient myth that they are associated with the North or horn of Africa (somali) simply due to their physical features. The DNA revealed most rwandese are largely Bantus with only 3% northern. Rwandese language is closer to maragoli than other Luhya dialects. Saniaga too  must have been assimilated to local Bantu tribes. They originally should carry both Nilotic and semetic features and influences , lost their language through inter marriage and must have dispersed at Nubia along river nile, Ethiopia and Uganda.🤔

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