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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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- Uriagana na Mangidi

Trans; You will meet Mangidi (Ogre).

Mangidi avee na katwi kadi ne riviri rigari. Katwi kazana kaveye nurwiga. Kurwiga koveeku ne emoni ndara. Avura muru. Munwa gwatomboka minu mugi kuri giking'ang'a. Matui gege namanene kuvita mutwi. Maswa gaizura kumbiri. Kigaro chiche kinyara kugumira vandu vatano vahindira. Masanda gege gatega kuri matimu. Nagenda hasi hadegeraa. Unyara kumbita muzimbiru mba kijira anyara komora kuri ingugi, nanina kumisara kandi anyara kunyagura kuri mundu. Afwanaa ridimoni.

Kwagana na Mangidi ne rirora ridiku ritambi. Vandu vakoraa mima jitenyekaa ivo vamaa vava vageni va Mangidi. Nakugumii sunyara kwiruka. Roveza rufwee. Niye mwigizi wavatingu.

Yiru rugano rukubirwaa vandu vatahuriraa mang'ana. Vavezaa vahangari navahindira kuvo. Nu rugano rwukutihiza vana vavuri kogotera mukidaho, muritenya, mumurimi, muvukinu noho kunzira nivatumiywi. Kandi ruvagayaa kogenda vudiku. Mangidi anyara kuva nagenda.

Gene sekoveekuho ne kerombe kuri Mangidi. Avura ho mundu yakerora. Vageri va kare vatumikiraa Mangidi kutihiza vana vave vangu na vahuriri ga vavorerangwa. Yiki ni kijira umwana anyara konyora matava naveye yengine. Si vwaraa vurahi kuva wa vandu vataveyemba. Vindu viu mburimu viaraa kuvunyingi na virara viraa virahi mba.

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