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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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The Yalwala


Ogirwa the old is said to have come from Mbale - Idavaga. Something happened. Whenever his children wished to go back and reclaim his land, he grew angry. And warned. 

He gave birth to one funny and cheeky ancestor nicknamed Riguruguru. His name was Zakariah Lung'aho. He could tune to some song 'Riguruguru zanangwa ngani rivozanga!' whenever drunk with ibusa. 

A people of Maraha clan lived then at Chavakali from where there is a cereal board compound downwards. But they were also silent under the leadership of Ogora, a leader from the Masingira clan that tended to have a low look on other clans around. Our charismatic Riguruguru not only gained his favour but came to be established when he married a Masingira girl. Riguruguru only had a sister that was married at Maravi. No brothers. The Saniaga families in Lunyerere were distant and only treated as close brothers. His land now, gotten from the Maraha, extended down from the Cereal Board to the road that heads to Bukulunya. There where a Luo later introduced a Printing press and won himself two beautiful Masingira girls. 

Riguruguru was a dealer in skins and hides. He was chief in the cattle market at Stendkisa and Ogora liked him so - for favours. Even the cereal board place for sometime had the name of Visero. 

Days went by and Adagi ruled the area. Riguruguru was then getting smaller and smaller. He was a world war fighter. He had a bone disease. One day while drunk, it happened. 

Fellow drunkers snarled this, 'we gave you a wife, we gave you land. What are you?' It made him marry a second wife, Migango. 

Adagi was one time in such hatred dragging him to court in unclear reason of the time. As savage as you can assume. A shouting match ensued. And this is what Riguruguru told Adagi: 'My family will be as stars in the sky, great men and great leaders.'

NB
Did you know that some clans/families due to conflicts or such taboos did not share water springs? Maraha and Maroka are an example. It happened even at the coming of Churches that if they were in a similar place different churches of the same faith were to be built. 

With Thanks

-: The Saniaga of Chavakali are cousins to thise of Lunyerere. Exact association eludes me to date but my father pointed me there when I needed wazee to escort me to things like Dowry negotiation.... A patriach in the family died recently, Gadonya was his name. Wish you had chance to interview him. His son Kigarave is a great father figure to me uptodate. Lunyerere and chavakali Saniagas are cousins

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