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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...

Haa, the names weren't far sourced!

-: Very interesting to get ancestry upto the 1600s? Great! So, this Saniaga was born or lived then... being in the league of George Fox, the originator of the Quakers and Quaker Church? Bless him! Just my thoughts, No wonder Quakerism grew with easy in Umulogooli land! We sung tsinyimbu tsya manani in primary school and names like Kwaga - (aga Kwaga yaleka khwisero), Endegure - (chegomora iki, ligina), Adamba - (wooi yeyeha?), Mahindira cropped up in these songs. To me i thought they were Kabras or Mumia names and expressions! Kumbe ni Saniaga... Magu magu magu!!!

-: The Saniaga story is an interesting one. 

Adamba has served in PAG for long. And he gave me a historical basis of the church (without the present delinquent fights). I will be following up with time. 

It is recently that the Nandis rocked Nyang'ori. Stealing cattle and havoc among other funfares of the time. The white who had the land at Nyang'ori could not farm well. 

And others. 

May the scattered mental hints be linked. 😁

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