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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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MOON; 26/08/2015

 View at University of Portsmouth Library at 20:18 United Kingdom time.

The moon had increased of its shape to a perfect gibbous. In the sky it sat late in the East. It seems that as it grows bigger it verily takes longer to reach the West. And now that I am too unpredictable and impatient I was not be able to observe its set in the West.

I had no camera. It is not mine. I use the organisation's. A fellow volunteer had taken with it to the field and I'd waited for her to come back in the day but she could not. If I knew it would go to this extend of missing the pictures I'd have denied her. But I asked her to take the moon picture for me. I doubt if she did. It is hard to get people interested in what they have no taste to.

From the previous moon in my condition I did not get better. I was worse in the day trying to be strong but when the evening came, I was too weak. I shopped for supper and went in more lonely and sad. It is good to live solely sometimes. It is so unwelcomed other times. I continued to be sick.

When I was rolling East and West on the bed with a hot gaseous stomach- probably a result of the medication, I went to Facebook. It is not in my doing to be glued online in the night. When a toad jumps in the daylight know that someone is after its life. Just then I was tagged in John Mwangi's moon picture. Oh Happy long sick night!

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