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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 : Where to sleep

You can't walk the whole day! The sun changed position and at  the back of my mind a conviction that I shall soon rest no matter the place grew stronger. During preparation, the thought of where I shall sleep received this approach : I shall enter any house at the approach of dusk, speak my case and get the response. People can still be trusted in the rural.

Where to adjourn the day needed be a good place to commence from come dawn. The nearby bridge was along Gahumbwa - Losengeli road. As much as I heard from Induraji stories of how a clanman would be stonned alongside the lover in accusation of incest, there was a conscious doubt whether sleep shall be harvested. Capricorns treasure it.

To start with,  I'd ask for any saniaga home. Saniaga's are everywhere, we believe. Speaking to a clanman would be speaking to one's brother, father or grandfather.  I counted on it as the greatest entry point. It would be god-send kind of visit.

But friendship dwarfs blood relations in practice. In Gahumbwa I have a Virongo. Virongo is that friend you are given during circumcision. On the great celebration day, our  age set was called Kwambuka - new millennium. It is expected for vorongos to continuously visit one another,  building friendship and so forth. He becomes your brother. That is where I went.

You'd ask why I did not head for Mudungu where grandma lives. Many things. It wasn't time to be asked how my father was doing when neither one another had said hello to either for a year. Family conflicts existed. And saying that I was following Izava would be a symptom of bewitchment of their learned son. I avoided.

Had I had friend the story could be different. Sacks for sleeping in and utensils for cooking would make the group leader tire more. If you want to go fast, go alone.

Food, phone recharge, a bed. If I was good enough  I'd have said 'Thank You' after a deep dreamy night. I only said Thank you.

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