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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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Izava Walk : Bush bushing

Good moro! The day started with seeing what remained of my primary school teacher who committed suicide. Was it a home with pigeons and rabbits? Cows and hens? A family can get wiped in a very short time. Unconcerned, Izava flowed downwards.

There is Riverside ridge before Lusengeli. Opposite, where Ehedwe calms to Izava is Lwenya. Ihedwe/Ehedwe is the small river one crosses from Senende to Hamisi. It follows the depths of the rifts, gathering water from springs to make Izava pleased.

Wondering why there was no placards or posters discouraging open-air defecation, a man came. He found me facing the bush, pouring warm salty water on the grass. It is an all time favourite feeling to piss by a bush, head up, taking in gulps of fresh air. Ask anyone whom I ever trekked with.

Irangatwa is the only son whom  people can say Kaka had a child, the man answered. He is yet to join college buy about the rest, it is a matter we can't talk about.

Gwaka is past tense. He was a strong boy that used to nguruma while running. His shoulders leaned left. He resembled the father. What is reported is that days after he came home, his stomach swelled abnormally the way people who are bewitched symptomise. Had he stolen something? What was the disease? The young man later died.

If you met Isiaho you wouldn't believe! It is said he is in Nairobi. He has as many  cuts as you won't count. He lives a bad life there and if he came here all the village would be terrorized.

Nyasaye akovere zimbavasi, we parted.

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