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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. ...

Are you similarly experienced?

You wake up from a deep sleep, eight hours undisturbed, look sideways to see whether you are still in a familiar world and thereafter do a few tasks before chucking away. The young man, full of energy courageously crosses the road and Alas! ‘Where did I see this woman?’ The woman passes by and too conscious of the environment, my friend turns with a style to look back. Tapping his head for such a bad mind, he tends to move on just before he remembers where he was with the woman….in his sleep.

On Google, I went with the search of ‘condition of confusing something to another’. Google isn’t yet devolved, is it? I was taken to a medical list of herpes, skin diseases and other maladies that one would think most of us are sick. I know there is a term for it as there is anaesthesia where one stimulation can simultaneously attract another. You can see a bulb as danger or one’s mouth as an eye!


Before we find the term, let us use Wikipedia’s nearest term to the situation- mental confusion. It states ‘These refer to the loss of orientation or the ability to place oneself correctly in the world by time, location; and personal identity. Mental confusion is sometimes accompanied by disordered consciousness (the loss of linear thinking) and memory loss (the ability to correctly recall previous events or learn new material)’. It is not about delirium or such extent of a problem. It is about those small ‘lapse’ moments that come in between even the active of moments.

Have you not gone from the house singing to the end the song you were listening to? Has one song never taken the better part of your days? It does not matter whether you sung it well or not because when lyrics are hard, you can hum or whistle. Have you never withdrawn your curse word when you found out that you had said it in a foreign forum?

My friend likes playing candy crash and she drooled to start tapping the empty air before her. And she was smiling at her wins! A lover of computer shooting games saw the airplane above him and wondered where in his world he had shot at it! A child confuses everything to a play object and that may not be the comparison here.

During normal working or talking time, a man has suddenly and severally asked, ‘How are you?’ The girl, mature enough to see it not as a bother has always severally replied, ‘I am good my friend’. A footballer has always seen two trees or stands as goal posts. A driver has always looked for a way on a small path in case he came there with a lorry, speaking to himself what ridge would be filled and what bump would be lowered.

It has happened at many times that I meet a stranger whom I confuse to a person I know. And it doesn't happen to be a miracle when that person visits or calls you later in the day. And many more of that…is it a special attribute?....have you experienced some?

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