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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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I would like to draw my family tree...

-: I'm not sure I have heard of another Ambuzi in Bugina except my grandfather's brother known as Thomas Ambuzi the son of Lung'azo. What we need to interrogate is where Lung'azo came from before settling at Bugina. He had vast lands. Some of his sons are at Chamakanga, maybe one in Busali area and others in Bugina including Thomas Ambuzi.

-: You're right my sister. Ambutsi was my grandfather and he's the son of Lungatso who actually settled and I believe was burried in Budira.

-: Thanks a lot Evans for shading light on this matter.  Lung'azo also had land in Budira where one of his sons Lwane was settled. I'm only aware of Lwane in Budira. Many were settled in Chamakanga but I can only remember an uncle known as Kivuzi. I don't know the rest. If any of those uncles in Chamakanga is still alive, he can give a lot about the Lung'azo family.

-: Chamakanga there was only Kivutse but Budira we had a few including Lwane and Mzee Nyabera I'll get a list of the rest soonest. So we have our people in Chamakanga, Budira and Bugina. In Bugina we had Ambutsi, Bwonya, Inanga, Jumba and Kavaraji.

-: Lung'atso /Rung'azo/ and his brother Kibidi may have been born elsewhere. Not Bugina. 

A little back, movements were many, of several courses. A generation could shift severally. One or two would remain at ancestral land as the rest took off. 

Let us then keep asking about. Where really? 

Ambuzi is mentioned with Govedi and Isagi as a people who were 'together' enroute. Either from Mbale, Iduku or Mazigulu...or direct from Kirindilu, mungono yavo.

-: That's where the confusion set's in because Ambutsi's Father, Lungatso is in Bugina yet his son is being associated with migration from  either Mbale, Iduku or Mazigulu.

-: He may. Assume you are right that it is true Rung'azo and Ambuzi had settled at Bugina.

Ambuzi was eldest, people like Govedi little and orphaned as at Mudete. He may have 'welcomed' them. He may have 'gone'  for them. 

Rung'azo may not destine Ambuzi if he may have settled at Bugina already. There are instances of sons bringing forth their parents. 

Kidimu, Rung'azo's father may also be Bugina based. We can think of deaths there. But births? Bugina Saniaga are probably 4 generations in. 

What do you think?

-: Yeeeeeeeaah!!! There's Sense in what you are saying. I'm actually trying to draw the Lungatso family tree as we speak.

-: Prepare a huge spreadsheet at the computer. Or a manilla paper. 😆. Sio kazi utamaliza leo. Also lots of airtime to confirm many things. 😁. All the best

-: We need family trees on the walls. A few pictures not bad. A calendar of Jesus not bad. But family trees on your walls will bring in the much needed awareness of Ubuntu. Nuclear family is a little selfish. 

Let us draw our family trees, let them adorn our home walls. Let them speak something to us and teach our young ones of their importance there and responsibility in the whole. 

Charity begins at home. Service is when you know your entry point. Ubuntu is when we (you) find 'you' in 'us'. Happy reminiscing as you grow from childhood to adulthood. 

- Good day Family.

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