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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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- Ga vandi imbiri, gogo inyima

Vokovora sivavoraa gavo kutanga vamaramba. Gavandi gavayanziza rekaza. Vatiguu sivamaraa. Rirasimuguka rizie koyera vakikiriku. Gavo mungono. Gavandi hamunwa, zu zu zu zu zu, nivisunda nichiriri. Nohenza zana chavavoraa kivura. Embodoka, rivitaana, risuhana, rinyegana. Vwoni.

Viyingwa nivio viayanzirira kwituma mugavandi. Vatunyiriza, vagangira, vagina, vameda, varohiza, vabanga, virura, vageranyia, vafananyia, vamwaminya, vasona, vaniarira namoni. Niyo igasi yavahevwa. Vareke vakoreki navayihana kugasi yavuzwa? Vatakora vataa kugangira, vataa rekana vatange kodora vandi, vataa moroma gukwumbaka vataa kuyanzirira gonechi. A, vandu vaingenyia.

Kijiraa kari vana nivihana mumima kuri yiji nurwavamaa vahurira vivuri nivizumba korohiza gavene. Onyora mwana muke navuza embeba yamera hamunwa, ururimi rwatavagira, umugaye akoseme. Riva kuri riene yiri marivirukizaa vayayi viviseno navakana vivisemo.

Mugasu numukavi wovogeri. Vudiku numbasu ahenzaa shanyara kwituriza muvuyingu. Nanyoo vwiyangu vwokomoroma avoraa gumbakaa, siyikumaa kugavandu. Kivara chakira mang'ana, vuri rindu nagege. Nuwenya kumanya gavandi nukuzi nutatanga. Nuwenyaa kwimanya tangira mumwoyo, tanga nagogo, ndio urahindira. 

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