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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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WHEN THE GAP IS BIG

Two steps and the camera could have gone. I do my best to hide the thing and put on a casual wear. When one of the two boys a whisper away asked me twenty shillings, I pretended to be busy and took the opposite way- I was heading where they were going. Confused, I accelerated slowly and took to a slow run as they shouted, 'utanyang'anywa hapo mbele'. Good that the place was deserted. As I thought of how I have been warned from using the road, Obama came in my mind. If so we will change- we who can hear- what about the people in the slums? The poor? The ignorant?

Later I had witnessed three men carrying a rather drunk than sick fellow. They staggered too. The government has of late been hard on the sell of illicit brews but not all hotspots have been visited. Evil lies in the furthest of corners where goodness may be hesitant to visit. More efforts are needed down there and the media should be in to this as it was on Obama's visit.




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