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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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Lung'afa: @⁨Peter Kirima⁩ , see if that can inform your search. That is Lung'afa Family tree.

Peter Kirima: Amazing. I know due to space....but are you please able to get their full names? Whos this Kidake on far right? is he same as Ekedaki? Names might change over time

Lung'afa: Our family (my family) has 'tried' to hide some info from us. They do not talk openly about some things. My grandpa had other children away from the twelve  you see there. Some died. Others are alive but I do not know where. They are 'squeezed' there and very soon I will knock their doors. That is the fate of Kidake, a person who could not live around my grandma cause she is terror.  I would want to know ako wapi.  Interesting family tales. 🤓

Peter Kirima: Our people never kept surnames consistently. We adopt second names of our projenitors. still digging. I hope its richard ekidaki

Lung'afa: Who is he to you? And where is he situated?

Peter Kirima: A distant relative on my mothers side....

Lung'afa: Try do some nossy job and let us know...🙈

Peter Kirima: 👌🏽

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