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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...

Some of the names to Indians at Lunyerere

-: I remember when we were kids one of my uncles used to call Drakadus 'Rwanikadwas' 😀😀😀. Runyerere gave birth to the famous Ambwere!!

-: I also met two of the Runyerere wahindi in Nakuru, they could talk very fluent kimaragoli but with a kihindi accent

-: 😃😃😃 I'm trying to imagine maragoli in Indian accent!

-: There was one Muuhindi with a wholesale in Ksm. I used to buy from his shop till a Maragoli mzee told me he spoke Lulogooli since he had lived in Lunyerere. He was called Gokan.

-: These are some of the Hindus who were at Lunyerere. I write as they were pronounced.

Birimoji
Maturi
Sirivai
Safari
Kerongore
Burumani
Emerach 

Birimoji had a son called Palu who became a teacher and taught at Mbale. Maturi had a son called Vagwanji. Gogo and Basiba were Sirivai's. Babu Safari's. 

There was a time they visited Lunyerere and offered goodies to children around in remembrance. Where their grandfathers lived and worked at.

-: I remember Sidibhai, Tana, Biku, Bangwaji. Given time, I can enquire for the other names

-: Can't wait. For future stories. Of how things were, became and changed. 😊. 

I was shown your place. It was for which Indian initially?

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