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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 08-09-2015 (The Last day)

At 4 in the morning

What if today was your last day? Let us not think of eternal life and matters spirituality. You have been chasing your goals so well- in fact living your purpose and then it happens that you can live no longer. Sometimes we least think of death. And when we do, we look at it negatively- an enemy. It is a result of a curse. But yesterday I was thinking of death positively. It is good to die. After doing all this and going through all that, I need a rest. Someone should come after and continue from there. Death is a rest. The problem is to face the last day unfulfilled
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I was anxious to see the face of the crescent on its last day. I am not certain whether there will be a ‘stubborn’ death thereafter. It may refuse to die and show again another thinner curve. I am not sure for that but I will sleep with the door open to observe.

At cockcrow, I obeyed the alarm and went outside. Not that I had flowing sleep. Over the face nothing showed. I moved far away from it so that I can see far into the East. And there was the satellite! Small, shinny and curvy! Had I just thought it died yesterday, I’d miss the day’s glow. It was weak and slow that within a short time the rays of the sun would swallow it up before it reached the centre in the sky.

So the last day may be here or not. If I see it never again till the other life, then I was seeing the end. The end may not be the crumbling of the Earth- for what is minute Earth in the giant universe? The end is to die and go. Nature does not d anything uselessly- Aristotle.

To wait for the last day is not to hope for a better time when the last day comes. It may be tougher. It is to live today like never before. It is not to cry in prayers- it is to understand the vanity and the unwritten laws that nature is incorruptible. It is to wait when you are not sure when the end will come- and if it finds you conscious, receive it.

I did an article sometimes back with a different view on the last day. Have a look.

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