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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. ...

Dishonest eyes

Why is the sun bigger at the horizon
In the rise and set
Calm and innocent
And smaller at noonday
Scorching the tenderlings?

Why is the moon bigger
Far East
Calm and innocent
And smaller and dull
Far West?

Why are the hills escarpments
From home
And full of giant stones
That fracture gecko bellies
When on top?

Do sizes change?

Or is it the dishonesty of my eyes
As my heart and mind is?

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