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Luanda Reggae Defenders - what is your long term agenda?

Luanda Reggae Defenders is a now a popular movement with roots in Vihiga and border Siaya and Kakamega counties Attention is brought to the manner and conduct the movement has gained fame and followers, mainly the Youths. The movement capitalizes on funerals. With a poor culture of putting the dead to rest, the Reggae Defenders have taken it by storm and rebranded the infamous ‘Disco Matanga’ – disco at funeral. Reggae Defenders on move. Pic: Charles Rankings: Facebook They mobilize quickly on the day the dead will be discharged from the mortuary. They have this huge old school sound system that is over buzzing to no clear reggae song - that they hire a pickup to carry - and it has a young DJ mainly standing there than mixing anything. Often, against the rules, the casket is grabbed from a hearse vehicle and tied to a motorbike. There it will be swayed and jerk breaked between other motorbikes on the narrow roads. That, is, how a fellow soldier, often a young dead, is mourned. ...

I have no words

I have no words
To describe a woman
Who knocked off a child
On Ronald Ngala Avenue
During her busy hustle
To provide for her children.

I have no words
To describe the driver
Whose maddening hoot
Made the school going child
Miss a heart-beat

I have no words
To describe the old woman
Bent by a heavy sack on her back
When people of her age
Are composedly waiting for their end day

I have no words
To describe the youth of my age
Who nagged me on the streets for twenty shillings
When he could rob
If we met at the wrong place

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