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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; 31-08-2015 (sleeplessness)

Moon in the clouds on Monday, 2300hrs.
For the second day I did not expect the moon. But for who am I that heavens fail to show their glory? In my night walk, the rain clouds in the East seemed illuminated. Having heard from Abdul that the moon was in the sky, I sensed the moon should be hiding from this part of the village. I was not in a hurry to see it.

An hour to midnight, unfocussed to the heavens, there it was! It was circular. I took the camera, zoomed in and alas! as expected! The waning may have started the day before. But Abdul's naked eyes and phone camera may have convinced him that it was circular. Having waxed upwards, the moon seemed to wane  downwards. I look forward to drawing a better illustration at the end of the cycle. I have had a few insights unknown before.

The stars are working against me. Insomnia is in. I am a frequent bed-turner. Yesterninght was worse. Amoeba, the bug in the system was diagonised in the day. I can't blame it on open eyes. I may have only slept an hour or so before waking up to candle poems. And when I did another round of small-scale urinations, up in the sky, the moon had kept loyal. 5am picture is below. Oh heavens! Maybe it is time to thank the past days I used to havebaby sleeps. Nowadays bits of anxiousness keep my mind active on the bed-thinking. 

Moon in the Tuesday morning sky, 0500hrs

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