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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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In my previous life I was named Ikemefuna


The life of Ikemefuna is of wonder and sorrow- the blurry picture of people's past. The hope to live as we suffer in innocense sends us to explore illusions. The path that the elders and the boy with a pot on his head followed seems the decisions we make leading us to uncertainity. Just at the end of the path (horion rather), the boy was slain. He was to atone. Innocense on trial. We get born and get assimilated to the troubles of a society that we were not part of. And to what purpose do the pain and death glorify? gods. Gods we know little about- gods we created- gods that prevail in human weakness. But we shall live again. And again to recall our previous painful lives.

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