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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 Kirima

With Misoga at his home in Mbale
Found at Mbale, the Kirima occupy Mbale village, north (right) of Mbale-Muzuliu road. The road is an extension of Mpaka road, separating iVukirima and iMavi (Sabatia and Vihiga constituencies respectively.)

Kirima was the son of Muganda who lived and died at eRonyenya. Kirima would begot Gwarovega, Madongoro and Obimbo. Their mother was called Achagana.

At this time, the vaNgomba subclan of vaGamuguywa was endowed with leadership, thrift to lose it. The opposite side of the road, Zimbalo area, vaRungusia subclan of the very vaGamuguywa, ruled. VaRugiri, vaRwangare and vaRudanya, vaMakure, though of the very vaGamuguywa, could only come later to leadership positions. Chief Ayodi was muNgomba. The land where Alex Misoga is at, bordering vatiga Obimbo, was bought from vaMuku who went downwards, waDemesi.

Gwarovega's are the ones direct at Mbale-Kisumu bus stop. The others are down at Vusanga, in the valley bottom of Ezorori. Madongoro's and Obimbo's at Mbale village, before Muzuliu.

Matilda Makungu, muYonga was the wife of Obimbo. Her children worked in East African Railways and Harbours, Tanzania. They are said to have at least gotten children in Tanzania - no records however.

Munagi, muMakure, was the wife of Madongoro. One of his sons, Nathan Kirima is vosegwa of Nathan Luvai of Chango. She had six boys and two girls who are married at Chango. The elder finding a spouse for the young one.

Misoga, 67, a village elder and grandchild of Madongoro, is an uncle and grandfather to many.  He is a strikingly brown skinned man, and he says Madongoro was also that way. When he was young, he says, women would fear touching him for fear of making him dirty - they'd have to wash their hands first.

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With Muganda having come from eRonyenya and Musasia of Rikambaya (of a father from eRonyenya) closely related to him, what are the leads in drawing a family tree that joins them?

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

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