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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 Tete

With Dishon Vwavwa at Wangeyo village near Igunga
Kitayi begot Tete. Tete begot Lusala, Lwangu, Imbai and Vihenda who was married Ivutwa. Lusala's people are on the right side of the road coming from Igunga. Imbai's on the left. Lwangu's migrated to Kigumba as others went to Senende by the name Kubano.

Muhindi was the only son of Lusala. He had only gotten one son and three girls when he died - Musimbi, Mwenderani, Muhonja and Muhindi. He died in 1941 leaving also an only son called Dishon Vwavu, born 1929.

It is Dishon that I sat with, at his home in Wangeyo. A cheerful, heavy worded old man who opens up depending on one's understanding with a common saying, 'nuduchi ahene yaho umanye kuri usira.' So he assisted a great in filling the Saniaga Oral Genealogy form.

He went to Kiambu young and from there learnt Masonry. Back, he worked under John Muhali (a grade 1 Saniaga mason from Bugina) in building places as Chavakali, Musingu Kigama and others. He built the house of Moses Mudavadi and Amalemba. When head teachers adopted a grade 8 building format he became a common mason, with a common house map.

Now his children and grandchildren, like in all other Saniaga families are spread far and wide.

More about the findings will keep being shared here as we search for other families and locations.

-/With Thanks
Saniaga.org
Saniaga.blogspot.com

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