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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 Avwova

Members of Saniaga Bugima group
Saniaga BUGIMA Self Help Group is an active group of people born and associated with the lineage of an ancestor called Ngusare whose son, called Avwova, aggressive in acts and occupation, moving from ancestral Inavuye village near Majengo to stony Gimariani, back to Mutembe near Majengo and forward to Butiti all in search for better land made him leave his people in the said areas. BUGIMA stands for Butiti, Gimariani and Majengo. 

It is said Ngusare's elder brothers, Keyoga and Mugunyi remained at Inavuye and least known by the Ngusare generation now that runs to the 5th at the moment. 

Avwova, elder son of Ngusare, visionary and occupier, did lead the dispersals and acquired land for his other brothers who have generations in Tambua, Gimariani and Kapkerer locations.  

He was buried at Tiriki, Butiti because his later life was spent there. He gave his children to Tiriki idumi ritual and became accepted there. Tirikis tolerated Maragoli expansion as long as you would adopt their idumi culture. 

He did cut his coat large and with 6+ spouses left about 19 children and many grandchildren and great grandchildren at the time of his death, 1988. 

In keeping the legacy and togetherness of a people of Avwova house, they kept communing in activities. Marriage, funeral, get together and such ways of keeping close kept on. 

Now they meet also for their group, contributing shares and looking forward to having a sustainable base worth uplifting members economically and keeping the family ties strong. Olindo Avwova is the chairperson to the group. 

Away from the recurring funeral challenges that affect a streamlined mode of working out group activities, the group has all it takes to advance. They should work out on a modality of remaining still and focused when such happens. This is by supposedly recruiting more young people to the group and increasing the number so that when a few are down for a reason the rest can go on strongly to the motivation of the affected. Knowing also the existence of other Saniaga groups would power then on ways as benchmarking. All in aim for greatness as a community. 

With Thanks
@ Saniaga.org

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