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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; 02-08-2015 (HOPE)


Hope on the lighter side.
The moon session has been a moon diary. I hope you have been following.

I had a reason to make my heart have a peaceful night. Just in the day Ufahamu Group members had given their names and identification numbers and ready for the group's (CBO) registration. It is my prayer that the vision inhibited may spur to greatness. 

Hopeful for a new day, the moon outdid the clouds and shone on the sleeping city waiting to rapture. Insomnia was a positive thing- the lemonade in my mouth. I saw the moon brightly up at the centre and its light outdid the street lights. From the bug, I expected to be better.

And it is in the very hope that pain comes. In hope, we inverse the pain. We shall survive.

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