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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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Some of the names to Indians at Lunyerere

-: I remember when we were kids one of my uncles used to call Drakadus 'Rwanikadwas' 😀😀😀. Runyerere gave birth to the famous Ambwere!!

-: I also met two of the Runyerere wahindi in Nakuru, they could talk very fluent kimaragoli but with a kihindi accent

-: 😃😃😃 I'm trying to imagine maragoli in Indian accent!

-: There was one Muuhindi with a wholesale in Ksm. I used to buy from his shop till a Maragoli mzee told me he spoke Lulogooli since he had lived in Lunyerere. He was called Gokan.

-: These are some of the Hindus who were at Lunyerere. I write as they were pronounced.

Birimoji
Maturi
Sirivai
Safari
Kerongore
Burumani
Emerach 

Birimoji had a son called Palu who became a teacher and taught at Mbale. Maturi had a son called Vagwanji. Gogo and Basiba were Sirivai's. Babu Safari's. 

There was a time they visited Lunyerere and offered goodies to children around in remembrance. Where their grandfathers lived and worked at.

-: I remember Sidibhai, Tana, Biku, Bangwaji. Given time, I can enquire for the other names

-: Can't wait. For future stories. Of how things were, became and changed. 😊. 

I was shown your place. It was for which Indian initially?

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