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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. ...

Saying #6

-Nekonyorereree mwigendinya sigadukaa -
Nekonyorereree - if caught up, if found
Mwigendinyama -on errands, away from home
Sigadukaa -it doesn't stop raining
Mundu naturi hango murigenda ririe amaa yenya yirane vukiri vuravu. Rwa aroraa maresi nigavunga amaa ahenda mwoyo ashaguri yengo nitatonya.
Imbura nikubaa mundu yigamaa. Na niva yari norogendo rutambi araduka vudiku kijira imbura inyingi ni ya hamugorova. Migera majivungiza mazi manyingi kari kwambuka kuva vudinyu. Vukindu, inzirira kandi madoshi garombaa mundu agenda garaha. Vandi vatia zimbeni. Ku mundu amaa yenya imbura ivuri kumunyora ichova.
Rugano yiru ruvuguraa imbura kusingirira mang'ana gandi. Ni rugano rukunikiru. Imbura inyara kuva vudaka, vurwaye, rihenda mwoyo noho kivi chosichosi kenyoraa mundu ma vuva vudinyu kuturamu kijira vogeheru vwu vunyari.

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