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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. ...

Isa yamwamira Anzigare na Makanu mwigendinyama

My soul mate here, Mr Chahilu gave me a few words of wisdom in today's fellowship worth sharing here. We came to the proverb, 'Isa yamwamira Anzigare na Makanu mwigendinyama'. Anzigare is the dense in mind. Makanu is the opinionated. The talk was on human nature, how sometimes moral indebts do not reflect rationality of reason. That people sometimes do things for the conscience sake. Not because it scores in the long run. We talked also on the dynamics of community projects him having been frontiers to early Harambee Schools. Yes, you will meet all sorts of people, he says. It needs a humorous mind to sway through. Or else you go back to the house not knowing whether to cry or laugh. Like Monalisa? Just enigmatic, he closes it.

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