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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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NEGLECTED CALABASHES

Before nylon papers, jericans and silos were invented to spoil the soil, there were magical calabashes that stored everything that needed to be stored for livelihood. Guards were used to fetch water, ferment alcohol, store cereals, preserve milk and scoop things that can be scooped among other things. Different species of the same acted differently. A liquor guard had its trunk cut below to make sure that straws are well served and can be easily cleaned by entering the hand in. It was also of enlarged hips. They may have preceded pottery because of their lightness, availability and longevity if well kept. Different lids to make items safe from micro-organisms were used- a banana bud or a maize corn. They now lie neglected in the old grannary.

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