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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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The Tete

With Dishon Vwavwa at Wangeyo village near Igunga
Kitayi begot Tete. Tete begot Lusala, Lwangu, Imbai and Vihenda who was married Ivutwa. Lusala's people are on the right side of the road coming from Igunga. Imbai's on the left. Lwangu's migrated to Kigumba as others went to Senende by the name Kubano.

Muhindi was the only son of Lusala. He had only gotten one son and three girls when he died - Musimbi, Mwenderani, Muhonja and Muhindi. He died in 1941 leaving also an only son called Dishon Vwavu, born 1929.

It is Dishon that I sat with, at his home in Wangeyo. A cheerful, heavy worded old man who opens up depending on one's understanding with a common saying, 'nuduchi ahene yaho umanye kuri usira.' So he assisted a great in filling the Saniaga Oral Genealogy form.

He went to Kiambu young and from there learnt Masonry. Back, he worked under John Muhali (a grade 1 Saniaga mason from Bugina) in building places as Chavakali, Musingu Kigama and others. He built the house of Moses Mudavadi and Amalemba. When head teachers adopted a grade 8 building format he became a common mason, with a common house map.

Now his children and grandchildren, like in all other Saniaga families are spread far and wide.

More about the findings will keep being shared here as we search for other families and locations.

-/With Thanks
Saniaga.org
Saniaga.blogspot.com

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