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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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Igbo people knew no kings


I find it hard to quote Chinua Achebe because most of what he wrote is public. It is not a literary genius work but a sieve and characterisation of the common African rich moral system. To call him the African Literature King is to sideline him from his people if not to blow his trumpet which a wise man will refuse.

The coming of Kings- Europeans- is known as the genesis of African disentegration and the adoption of tribe as a boundary. People who lived at a certain locality, with little knowledge of the outside world tend to view themselves as a nation where all were kinsmen and entitled to equal benefits through a representative council of elders. This is supported by Achebe. 

So when I see a peer in campus hungry for power I get nuts. He is too greedy for life. When I see the inequality in Kenya I swallow bitterly. Things are hard. But can I live a sad life?

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