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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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-Vatwa vasekana zimbara -
vatwa - people of foreign origin, half-casts, of similar problems, living at the boundary
vasekana - laughed at each other, scorned one another
zimbara - wounds, scars, fates
Vatwa na vandu vanakivara vataveye nuvurungi murimenya riavo. Na vandu vidikira mu vandi, varara vazia komenya mumiritu na vandi vazia muzihiri zindi.
Rwa vaganiraa yo, vogono vwo kumanya yavo na vandu vu l'lera l'lara korondekana ne riva riavo, vamaa vagirung'ana vatanga kosekeriza no komonya vandi. Vari vakonyane vamaa vagosana vava vasigu kari si vahereranaa mba. Numuteva wache aveendi amaa yegoiza amanyi mba noho amoroma mang'ana madamanu kuye.
Vuri mundu aveyange ne imbara yeye. Imbara iyi novogeheru vunakivara. Vunyara kuva vurwaye, vudaka, vusiza, vorema, vukungu noho vumanani vunavoreve. Rwa mundu atangaa koteta navora mang'ana madamanu ku undi amaa yiviriraa kandi naye aveye novogeheru. Genyaa mundu murimoroma ririe avore marahi, mang'ana gumbakaa, inditi ne viseno areke. Na ndio si varasekana zimbara mba navuza varayanguizana murimenya riavo.

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