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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 rwu kuharika (Song of a Polygamist)

Coming back home, the man is not very sobber. He has been drinking with other men. He does not trust his wives. He could bump into a man in his homestead. So he signalled his approach by a song. By the banana back side they would run off if they had intruded.
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Yeee, yeee yeee, Madiori
(Yea, yea, yeah, Evening)

Mwene mugizi ndagaruka
(The home owner is back)

Yi kirigi nevora iraragura
(The double hind-toed when crows)

Vundi vudaywa vugwizanga zisu
(Other cocks become pullets)
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The song fits the proverb... Enyegangwa nikizia mwijinga. That it is belittled while still away. When it comes back things get different.

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