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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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Ha muhembe


(Ichavakari. Ha muhembe. Kisiki chihwaa. Muvasu gururi)

Induraji: Ga girung'ana, madiku ga girung'ana. 
Viraji: Ha chavakari yaha hari rugano kweri. Nzizurizaa vurahi. Misango na kiri yimu (asona vurungi). Na kisambaa inyama. Cereal board ni kiyinzira. Press niyadinya. Magu! 
Induraji: Kurava vandi ngani kwazia ihare. Ihare! Umanye vutuji vwa voyeranji mu vorogori muno. Navuza kijira kwaduka ha kwazizaa kwa yisunda ku mba.

(Ambaso navitaa akuba zimoni avarora)

Induraji: Mwanitu, ndi? Wenyaa uviti za vujira murembe.
Ambaso: Awa mukurundu. Guvari kuvara hachi murisunda hakindu. 
Induraji: Hakindu hai? Hai? Kisiki chu muhembe kiyavwaa yiki. Igo ga komoromanji ku na Viraji.
Viraji: Umanye igasi yitu ya 'jua kali' ni ya hakindu dave. (Vaseka). 
Induraji: Yengo ndi? Varamu? 
Ambaso: Hake. Ndura Agakhan Kisumu. Musakuru yavee mu miniku. 
Induraji: Na madiku, na madiku nindamuroraa. Yaminika ngani? 
Viraji: Inzi ndanyora ripoti musakuru numuminiku navuza virenge viagwa vigata. Ombere mwanitu.
Ambaso: Ku ni ndio. Azii kososa mumavwevwe karunu. 
Induraji & Viraji: Mwodi
Ambaso: Ku murareka inzi ngende mbiri ripoti yengo. Rikiri kuduka yo. 
Induraji: Ndaza, ndaza. (Ambaso avareka)
Viraji: (Na henzaa kisiki nunu kegongominywaa) Yani Ichavakari wosi kunyara kuva kuho ni isivitari da? Vasakuru vitu vakuziraa Embo. Henza zigarama. Ga kovoranji. Kovee ku ho za. 
Induraji: Musakuru yazaa yikara nu kunyi ha Muhembe yaha. Yaha. Hu mu China arombaa inzira yaha. Ngotwa arombaa inzira yaki? Yukushira vasomi vitu kuyinzira Agakhan? 
Viraji: Magoso, magoso. Genaga gashiorwaa ndi? 
(Mudoga guza havari vasingii. Rimoroma rikarika.)

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