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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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Back to Village Mode, thanks to Saniaga WhatsApp Group.

There was an article in Standard jana where a lady was thinking...'should traditions be deliberately taught?' cause she was finding herself in fixes, in need of knowledge to interpret what she wasn't at ease with. She is conscious! And as we may be far from relatives and our community, knowing that technology is a reaction in its way to the globalisation of communities, we gather here, thanks to WhatsApp, in soul, as if we are in some interior village, for preservation of something. Even then people denied practises, debated customs, refused integration and all that.

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