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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. ...

Muviti yivugizaandi?

Here are ways in which a person can say Hello or get attention of a passing person...sort of rhetorical greetings. You do not need to have had initial talk with the acquittance. Yet it is like the questions seem to start way above knowing one's welfare. This however only happens to age mates! The answers are nothing but 'yee' or 'awa'. You can add on them. 

- Ohenzi ha?
- Uzia hai?
- Ohenzi za imbiri...
- Ovoraa unyiri virenge? 
- Ogendeku, noho? 
- Unyagul'laaki? 
- Uvitiraaza ihare
- Oheraa dave? 
- Ovoraku murembe
- Wutura varamu? 
- Ngoronde? 
- Uzia kusuma
- Ngohereke? 
- Achi nogovera
- Ungavuliku viuginji
- Uvacherizi yo
- Ndoraa okeherana
- Hango yaho, mbeeho? 
- Mbeku chamurizaa
- Mbee muviti (mbiti)
- Reka nduki imbiriyi, nziranaa
- Nusuma uvitiri yaha 
- Wagane ni ngavi 

And many others

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