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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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Enzogu yakuzira wa Rivendi

Enzogu -elephant, mighty
Yakuzira -it died there
Mukivanda -valley bottom, well, spring
Cha -of, owned by
Rivendi -a rat, yellow stripped bush rat.

Kare kwariho na vandu vazizaa mukidaho vuri kazozo kosomba mazi. Rwa vavitaa muvivitiru vaganaa ne tujungu kunzira. Tujungu zana twaraa nu vuvare vwe rigondo rie kibugi. Ku vandu vegosaa vavora -'ma! mavendi gayanza kuvitavita imbiri wa vandu.'

Ku enzogu yaraa inyamanyama yaguta ziosi mukivara. Si yenyaa ku inyama yindi ikumi dave kijira iranyora ruyari kugivita. Rwa yahurira Rivendi rihevwaa ruyari kuvita kegero yamanya nisinyika niyenya kumanya Rivendi ni vwaha. Kandi yenyaa yiti Rivendi.

Ku yazia niyisingiriza mukidaho niva iharavi mbitirira. Rwa vandu vavuka vanyaguri ne visanda ne zisiongo vadahe mazi makere ne mitugu jitaaduvura gagwi vusinu vanyora Enzogu yakukumara mukidaho iduvuu hosi vavura sha vakora.

Ku vamanya nivarangana niveteva nikindiki kerombaa enzogu nekora shie ekoraa ndio. Rwa vandu vataraa 'Rivendi' ma emeda vururu isuvira ni mundu murara kuvaveye vadashi va mazi. Vandu vamanya nivarora kivi nivita enzogu yenira.

Rwa enzogu yakuza vamanya nivaranga kidaho chenicho 'wa rivendi'. Rugano yiru rufananaa nu rwa 'Navoregwa yita embogo'.

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