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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...

Dondora: Gungura

Who can do a two paragraph rich-desriptive description of this image in Maragori (lulogoli if you like, 😊). The winner will go home (or you already home? 😄) with a tap on the back. Let's see...

-: Yava na vana vitu. Murara arangwaa Visavirwa na undi Adorwa. Vana yava ni vaguru. Vayanza kokonya guku miyinzi ja hango. Ivakamara varazia kukina.

Nunu vikaye ha chamugizi. Vagunguraa maduma kutura ku visogoto. Vatanji kare. Gavagunguu ganyara kwizura ingungi ndara. Koveye mu inyinga yi rigesa. Hosi huzia kuduka onyore vuswage vuvagarwi hachova.

- The lizard that fell. Tap tap tap.

-: Not a Luloogoli authority. Impeccable. Just one word- Kudondora noho Kungongora 🤔?

-: Dondora to me is Swahili borrowed. Any views?

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