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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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Origin of Sakwa Kamnara - Second Vesion

-: The second version states that the kamnara people came to sakwa via lake Victoria. Like other tribes that initially settled in sakwa, they used 'bworo' (floating islands) or 'yiedhi' (canoes) for crossing the lake, where they came from is not clear but elders of the tribe believe that they might have come from yimbo location or from some islands in lake Victoria. They are not descended from Luo since proff. Ogot does not mention them in the history of the Luo.- msakuru Hezekiah Kisia.

-: Now here is the connection. 'the kamnara in sakwa are aware that some of their people continued moving towards the East and probably settled in present maragoli of vihiga District. However they are not able to relate the details or estimate the period or date with regard to this movement'

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