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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 #18

- Vwiko vwum'murugu -

Vwiko - relationship, relative
Vwum'murugu - of the leg

Vandu va kare sivamoromaa kuri vakarunu mba. Vavisaa mang'ana mumang'ana. Sivenyaa chavavoraa, kari nicharaa kirahi kevoreke havuravu. Rimoroma siriaraa rihingana neritavatava ria kororaa madiku gano mba. Nivavoraa vwiko vwum'murugu vamanyaa chavavoraa vene.

Murugu gwayuma, muvasu guvari ku urarora negong'ereng'ana. Mundu nayaga ku namasanda ararora risamuka riagwo. Vandu vanyingi sivasuviraa virenge viveye nigasi mba. Mavaroraaza viveeho kogenda. Avarema ivo vamanya vurahi vwivirenge.

Rugano yiru rwavorwaa nu mundu yasinywa. Mundu namuteva, 'vuyu numurinovo, sindamanyaa aravora mang'ana mavi kwivi', ma avorerwanji avora, 'vurina vwum'murugu'. Gavee kovora si nivurina vuhindiraa mba. Murara aziraa undi hasi, amumoromeraa madamanu, sivakonyanaa, vaveye nuvusigu mugati. Kari viko vavee ndio.

Unyara kumanya mundu mukonyi korondekana na shiakonyaa wacho, namuvorera marahi, namuruta, namusarira vurahi. Vwenivu vurahi vuhindiraa. Vandu mavavora, vayanzana kuri mweri gwayanza vudiku.

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