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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. ...

Discordant Voices; Lung'afa's translation

RIUHANA RIE MIOYO JANGE

Mumbisu mwange, dada
Mburiraa riuhana rie mioyo

Murara guhanzuka vogeri na agirigari
Vujira kwitima!

Gundi gwu rusa rwu miandu
Ruyari nu rusuma, viayanzwa
Viavofwa mu rigotwa
Ritiga risura!

Iyi murara gwanira riehozeriza
Mirembe, vurara ne riyanzana
Vutahambwaa
Ni rienya rio vomenyo!

Dada, igo ki?
Agagirigari gange, agariha?
Mwoyo ki murungi?
Na muchamu guriha?

Nuyinga, muyanzi wange,
Murishiushiukanira rimanya
Nirigangamirira zimbemba
Kivara kuduka kikwigizi - Anzigare
Imbisu ye mioyo
Indio vandu vikaragira
Kazozo mioyo kwuhizana!

- Original poem by Chahilu

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