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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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No Ngugi, Vernacular is PAST.

I am talking like a foreigner as I answer to Ngugi's thoughts. But foreigners are not killed for their opinions. It is the responsibility of the sons of soil to decide on their fate now that things are no longer what they were.

To propose vernacular languages is to confine one's world. To learn a language is to live- identity. And to live is to time. And time in the global world is a scarce resource. There is therefore no time for identity and hence language. 

The reason as to why the global world is against identities as boundaries, morals and culture is because of the diversity and thinking of a greater world to discover. Language is therefore a minor thing to chase and any mode of communication and emancipation is welcomed. Learning is more than a language.

The fact that there are many languages- mostly ethnic- make it harder to suggest. My mother is a Kamba and father is a Luhya. Do children still belong to the father's land? Time has changed. Did Luhya men know of Kamba women? They were aliens. Therefore I am a born of a wrangle. 

Not that I am a city born. I now my vernacular but that should not be a bragging point (or politics for Raila). I don't now how vernacular is helping me but I often source distinct ideas and words from there. The denial speared by Ngugi that those who now only of foreign languages are a betrayal is a sign of sheer shallowness. Once I have communicated in whatever manner and my needs are catered, what next? It is not about language (morals); it is about personality and intuition that makes a behaviour.

The world is continuing to grow smaller and we should celebrate it. Languages are things that made it big. And as we go to Mars, with whatever language, I hope we are not confined to emancipation ethnicity.

Thank You

Professor on stage. Picture source; Web


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