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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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Rwimbu rwi Kiziri (Song of a celibate)

Alone in the night, a cold house, he is awake, hasn't slept. The fireplace glows warm. Keveeho ndio, referred to as 'it' and not 'him'. Muzigenyo zinyingi -wondering.  Then he breaks.
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Ha vandu varizanga vindu ninzi moni*3
(Ha, people are eating things and me awake *3)

Du du du du du. Du du du du du

Vaduya munyanguruga ninzi moni

(Hitting the 'hen pot' and me awake)

Dudududududu.
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The song continues, somehow the man startled, somehow resigned.

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