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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...

Ndikakwangare urikavora yaga!

To scratch the surface of the assimilation dynamics of Mulogoli, Avagihayo, who are actually Luo, were grafted as one of the *Musuva* clans.
There is evidence that some of the Avasuva in Vihiga have relatives in Suba, Rusinga Island.

That is how you get names like, *Onam* among the Maragoli. 
_Onam_ in Luo means, he who is from the Lake/Lakeside.
If it was Luhya, the name would be, *Inyanza*

To stir your imagination, the Jaramogi Odinga Odinga family are not Luo.
And that is why that don't use the Luo names like Odhiambo, Onyango, Atieno etc, none of of the sons or daughters of Mzee Jaramogi bear a typical Luo name.
They are rumored to be Avasaniaga.
Odinga is a Luhya name.

This does not equate to the one people used to pull on us about Moi and _umwana wa Amoi_ ...

However, the Odinga family would never want this information to be in the public domain because of the political ramifications in Luoland.

Umulogoli Achamihanji za, vayanze vasuli.

Simeeda ku ilindi Dave, gahele kumunyi avamusomeye ku hano.
Naambuli umundu nahela ku ichova yila, nangwambakane wahugana 😇

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