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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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...POOR DANDORA


Will there be a time when Dandora will look like….?
Or better?
Or never?

Have you ever passed by Juja Road and straight across Outer Ring Road?
Mathare slums pleases none, does it?
The sleeping urchins along the road
And the dust on the foot paths
Doesn’t make you sneer, does it?
All this is on our way to Dandora.

If your phone is not snatched at the roundabout,
The bone oduor will kill your smell sense
The rusty vibandas will redefine beauty
Your long afro hair is dyed brown-red-grey

The bottoms creek as the front tires immerse
The engines fail and get restarted
A minibus opts for the pedestrian side
For the road is a neglected rocky farm.

Noise, dust, sun, robbery and hunger
Mud, sewer, breakage and tribalism.

But still people live there
It may be my narrow thinking
For there are people
Who love D!


This picture I took in Kawangware. The situation is not different from Dandora. 

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