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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 MISSIONARY ARRIVES

The group leader rushes
To take his bag
And lead him in

Participants stand
Breaking from a social talk
To show respect
To the entering luggage.

He greets the women around
Wondering where men went to
Knowing not
They most attend important meetings.

He sits by the window
Praying for more Oxygen
For he knows the face of the air inside
Is that of the faces around.

From their gazes
He reads tiredness
Yet he would still want to say it in a different way
What other Organizations have spoken to them
Before giving out the bread.

Half a century past independence
He thinks not of a reason
Why these very people
Will  get out of poverty.

He is a missionary
From Europe
And he loves his job
Working with the vulnerable

He knows they are sick
Lazy and pretentious
Beggars and barterers
 Yet benefactors from cardinal sources.

And he never learns
With such simple thoughts
That there are a people
That would better be desperate
Than be fortunate.


Picture Source: www.ezluxe.com


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