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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 within Me

From within me, dear Dad
I hear voices; clear, tense and discordant
One shouting knowledge and facts at any cost
Without pity, hate or love!

Another craving the golden world
Of power and glory, a cherishable gift
Wrapped in the velvet veil
Of blissful ignorance!

Yet another yearning for peace immeasurable
Toleration, moderation and accommodation
Beyond us, 'all laud'
With the romance of sweet longing!

Dad, what means this?
Which one is my true voice?
Which one speaks truth?
Which one is false and demonic?

Idiot, my dearest,
If to school you hadn't rushed
And swallowed up all the half-truths
Nature might have taught you - Anzigale
The meaning of voices within
They are what we are
A curious mix of competing oddities!

- Poem by Bearnerd Chahilu. 

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