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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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If you came across
A thin unfed lad
In brown plastic sandals
Contracting and relaxing legs like a cow's forelimbs
A shiny silver coated stagnant watch on the left
With a slight forward bend
That is me.

I carry a novel and a notebook in an A5 brown envelope
With an Organisation's camera in a black case

The notebook is a therapy
Against external threats
Of hooting and misplaced stones

Poa will be the reply incase I am greeted
From my dry lips

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We are but a passing crowd


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