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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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Haa, the names weren't far sourced!

-: Very interesting to get ancestry upto the 1600s? Great! So, this Saniaga was born or lived then... being in the league of George Fox, the originator of the Quakers and Quaker Church? Bless him! Just my thoughts, No wonder Quakerism grew with easy in Umulogooli land! We sung tsinyimbu tsya manani in primary school and names like Kwaga - (aga Kwaga yaleka khwisero), Endegure - (chegomora iki, ligina), Adamba - (wooi yeyeha?), Mahindira cropped up in these songs. To me i thought they were Kabras or Mumia names and expressions! Kumbe ni Saniaga... Magu magu magu!!!

-: The Saniaga story is an interesting one. 

Adamba has served in PAG for long. And he gave me a historical basis of the church (without the present delinquent fights). I will be following up with time. 

It is recently that the Nandis rocked Nyang'ori. Stealing cattle and havoc among other funfares of the time. The white who had the land at Nyang'ori could not farm well. 

And others. 

May the scattered mental hints be linked. 😁

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