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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. ...

It is a granary that comfortably hosts guests.

Sometimes back (and now), the structure you see was a home to my mother(the one you see). The improvisation on the structure has brought in the iron sheets and nails to join timber. It used to keep them high above ants, predators and the below space would be for poultry and young animals. The reason that it is raised on  everlasting stone beams prevents the structure from corrosive ants. One can easily spot their presense and rub them off. As for more about it, let the picture intrigue your thoughts.

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