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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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From the craddle, to the world and back

With Professor Mwanzi and his beautiful blue gem 
Kenyan map is basically a Maa zone, 1800s. The Maasai played a major role in the amalgamation and also dispersal of clans/tribes. And also in informing the chronicles of white man, pre-independent Kenya. The philosophy behind the growth and growth of maa was mainly out of their lifestyle. To roam the vastness, meeting new incoming communities. Attacking and enrolling collaborators. Having a ceremony to initiate new members to their tribe - as the Tiriki did, to be counted one among.

Identities were fluid. Changing over time. And fast. Often new people did not want to remain distinct in fear of stigmatisation. To pride in your origins would be equal to self betrayal. There would be consequences. Stories Down River Nile.

Down River Nile is a later story, Up River Nile an earlier story, 250,000 years ago. The craddle of ManKind is in East Africa. Where over time he was civilized enough to step out for adventure and conquering. Up the great river he went. To Arabia, to India, To America, later to Europe. The African Gold Age. And the world celebrated the Black Man, of good character and disposition. Contributing Cuneiform and Hieroglyrlphics to the world. And a system of education such that it applies to date. Greeks can tell.

Then came the Persians. To their own way. The sword and such. Tribulations. Tracing roots, coming home. Then came King James Version of the Bible. Racism. Then colonization and sadly, the modern economical and political standoff in African nations and African states fuelled by China and the West. Ideas against this can turn Africa back to greatness.

Africa, and so East Africa, is capable of providing for its own, people living freely, with pride. As communities of old, in the vast grasslands.

Pic; Historian Prof. Mwanzi and his relic car. With Lung'afa.

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