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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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It is a beautiful homestead

A beautiful traditional compound at Nabongo Mumia Cultural Centre, Mumias.

-: These beautiful structures will soon be obsolete, they look so natural and exotic. Most of all they are environment friendly, look at the grass and other vegetation around, still intact!

-: The first wives hut i suppose is the one facing the road straight

-: That is the man's house in this context. Usually the owner of the homestead has a house at the centre. But the Wanga have it facing the gate, kirivwa. The first wife on the right hand, her house equally facing the entrance at an angle.

-: Just at the entrance, kirivwa, are two opposite facing houses, zidisi. The warriors/sons of the homestead live there. A visitor has to stop at the entrance, be interrogated by the gate keepers before a message is sent inside and the owner of the house is notified. 

Around the homestead a trench is dug for security purposes. An enemy would not jump over.

-: If these structures were somewhere 'visible' someone would buy or rent them at your price, I think we should put them somewhere for display as a museum they look beautiful!

-: I was somewhere in a village in Moiben (Uasin Gishu) and I came across such a structure, the owner has a modern house but he could not destroy this original structure, he is originally from Nandi

-: We are championing for a Saniaga Museum. We shouldn't forget a house. 😊

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