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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; 29-08-2015 Full moon

Happy Full Moon!
The moon has waited for the evening stars to be seen with them. It is past seven-thirty and it is slowly moving from East. Unlike the position of the sun that quickly changes shadows in size, this moon has no worries to hurry wherever. 

It is yester night having been unsettled by bedbugs that a dream came. I was struggling to capture two satelites in the sky- the moon and the sun. The sun was setting and it wasn't very piercing. The moon was there too. But the rising from North East of the moon and the setting of the sun from the very place seemed unrealistic. It seemed a bad omen from the eyes that spoke from the huts. The camera could also not quickly capture for it was quickly setting.

Looking at it it has a soft outline like a baby's thigh. When I zoom in the camera there are traces of black and white matter on it. Scientists explored that moon is not as smooth as our ancestors may have referred to it. The reason as to why there is only one moon up there is yet unknown to me and how it religiously and climatically influence trends is another pandemonia.

The first cycle has ended with least rain clouds. I am not sure of the next cycle. If at any moment it happens to rain any day soon mom will say it was of setting off the moon. I am not sure whether the moon will get lost for a say or two so that its waning cycle starts but I am not hoping to see it tomorrow. Maybe a day after.

The fact that to this far we have been able to witness it each day in its different cycles and stages of growth may signify a certain kind of life in us. We grow to the fullest and let nature take its course. For the next two weeks we will be daily experience a fading moon that once was a giant. 

Though I look at the moon with increased lookingness sometimes I think to undersatnd it I need different eyes and body. How many of my wishes have found the very body that yearned and the reaction turned out aloof? If you took me to the moon please give me new eyes and body. I guess I just admire the luminary (a creation of a better future place) simply because I have not been given the chance to be there and all illusions will be canned.

And because the moon follow up session is but a diary on the blogspot, let me hint that it was an adventurous day of walking past roads that have intrinsic memories. I saw the place we rested with her and the road we led each other through. I remember the day. But the love that existed is no more there. It fade away. I woke up to a sickless day and the coming up of memories was a therapy to quick healing.

Happy full moon!

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