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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. ...

SON OF THE SOIL (poem)

SON OF THE SOIL (poem) - Zolani Mkiva - South Africa - Poetry International



I do not have perfumed lips 
But I speak the truth 

I do not have cat eyes 
But I can see the true colors of the universe 

I do not have donkey ears 
But I can hear what make sense and what is a nuisance 

I do not have a dog nose 
But I can smell and distinguish between carbo-monoxide & oxygen 

I do not have a big heart 
But I do have passion for love and I love people 

I do not have soft hands 
But I can deliver my people from shame 

I am the son of the soil 
Like daughters of the land 

I am the filament of freedom 
I am the pistil of peace 
I am the calyx of consciousness 
I am the corolla of peoples cause 
I am the pollen of prosperity 
I am the anther of amicable solutions 

I am the stem of our society 
The son of the soil

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  1. It is a great poem with fully meaningful

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