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Heavy responsibilities for elder aunt among the Logooli

With Seenge Fonesi. She is the elder grand daughter of Isagi and elder daughter of Amugasya. She is often present in functions involving the family of Amugasya. Pic taken on 18/4/2024. The elder sister soon becomes the elder aunt. It is this “seenge munene” (elder aunt) tag that she is tied to many cultural responsibilities – back home. To her marital family she may appear as any other woman, but she is not so in the eyes of her people. Marriage does not steal her away as it would happen with other daughters of the old man. To her, as days go and the old man and woman of the estate are dependents, she becomes increasingly present.  Her brothers also need her for almost all traditional markings. They are marrying, she needs to welcome the new wife. They are giving birth, she needs to come to midwife or “bless” the new born. They are paying dowry she needs to lead the women delegate. There is a conflict she needs to come for a hearing.  And many others. Traditions does not expect her to
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They ventured past the POND - Maragoli Women.

-: Welcome back home madam Jesca; by the way I know of very many Luhya women married in those islands of Central America, why is it that when our people get out there it's not easy for them to identify themuselefus as such, we easily become Romans!!? ☹️☹️☹️

-: My son was getting married to a Jamaican girl and her Mum is Trinidadian. Actually Trinidad is near Venezuela. We had a boat/yatch cruise and got to a few kilometres to a Venuzuela port. I didn't meet any luhyas there. Sidika

-: They are there, many ladies who are married there but contented with their current position, unless you provoke them to introduce themselves (themuselefus)

-: Heeehe, jameni, when and how did they, the ladies get there.. to Venezuela? My travel experience shows no East African leave alone Maragolis left for the Americas. The West Africans left, as slaves, of course. Maragoli women never traveled afar and thats a fact... todate. Ovoveshi kolekane navwo. Avakali valogooli arent or were not that ambitious to venture into foreign lands especially beyond the POND

-: Don't dismiss him, he might be knowing better. Coz there are many crude ways people travel to America up-to today.

-: I will introduce you to three who got married there recently, in the land of the pastor who died recently in a plane crash, Monroe, we have adventurous ladies if you didn't know

-: By the way Ndanyi might be right. I figured some Africans with Kenyan looks and talked Swahili to them and the response was hastent then followed by I am not Kenyan!! Why didn't they just respond I am not from Africa? Our guide then responded that he is Haitian. I felt some suspicion there. Rest and rise well. Sidika

-: New Jersey, USA, comprises a sizeable Maragoli population if I am not wrong.
It should be the largest Maragoli Diaspora enclave? And let us not forget our Maragoli and the Quaker Church in Pemba as well. The first Quakers moved to Tanzania from Kenya to look for land, which they found on the border of the Serengeti Game Reserve. Subsequent missionary activity from East Africa Yearly Meeting increased membership, with service projects aimed at agricultural training - popularly known as the "Lord's acre plan". Due to political pressures, many Kenyans left Tanzania in 1978, with Tanzania Yearly Meeting of Friends being founded as a separate organisation in 1980.

Kyela Monthly Meeting of Friends (Southern Tanzania) was founded as a worship group when a local man (Barnabas Mwaihojo) read about Quakers on the internet which led to him setting up meetings in three local villages.

Pemba Yearly Meeting is on the island of Zanzibar. 

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