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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. ...
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Mzee Ojwang was thrown

A story is told
Of a famous comedian
Who was thrown by his people
In a public cemetery.

50 years in the Industry
And all he could invest in
Was his nickname, Mzee Ojwang.

His name erected to the sky
And was adored by the highest bidders
He drunk from both the old and new
Puffed in the dry and the wet
And so his grave was not virgin.

In hospital, walls were his companion
At his rented home, no politician went
The public knew it was pneumonia
On his death day, every ear heard
The famous comedian has slept.

If he had children, he lacked sons
If he had a family, he lacked brothers
If he had women, he lacked a wife
If he had friends, he lacked companions
For the shame we saw is unheard of.

His proverbial soul rests
Among many unknown souls
Where urchins are deposited
When they succumb a a mob.

Picture Source: Jeff Koinange Facebook wall

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