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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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Saniaga Archives - Concept Note

Kijira Majira /Chigira Majira/

The Anyonge

The Aziaya

The Kivihiri

With 50 elders reached for Saniaga Oral Genealogy Documentation

The Chuma -2

The Isagi

The Ndanyi

The Kasievaji

The Ngaira

The Oboge

The Viraha

The Andindivana

The Ndadema

Kamnara (Saniaga) Self Help Group - Iduku

Avasaniaga Self Help Group - Mbale

The Evore

I would like to draw my family tree...