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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: Kotema Kerova

Izava went about its business as we talked. It was yet it wasn't. The trench was there, visible, but the waters that left their fountains in the morning were long into Bunyore if so Izava's speed can be estimated.

Kotema kerova is when somebody needs a certain cleansing that in itself isn't well justified. For instance, if my sister had a child before marrying, and it happens the child dies, she is supposed not only to attend to the child's burial but also do something else.

Once the child is burried, in this case in paternal place, she has to spend sometime with the child's father. Have sex. Fire extinguishes fire, foresters know that. If the child is in maternal home, burried there, anyone, probably my sister's crush would be the pawn in the game. She should go where she's married a washed woman.

Kukunga kihari, as I shall  later include more of sayings, is when a child and the paternal people are supposed to set off before the died woman is burried fully. The died woman could be a married or divorced lady who in a way or another, a conflict settles her to be burried where she was born. Dowry may not have been paid or the husband was cruel. When the grave is filled halfway, they leave immediately, without eating, no looking, sometimes under great cries from the child.

Kotema Kerova is also what is expected when people you are closely related to die. If my brother, sister, parent dies, I got to sleep with my wife, of course if I am married, and shed off the happenstance.

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