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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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From the craddle, to the world and back

With Professor Mwanzi and his beautiful blue gem 
Kenyan map is basically a Maa zone, 1800s. The Maasai played a major role in the amalgamation and also dispersal of clans/tribes. And also in informing the chronicles of white man, pre-independent Kenya. The philosophy behind the growth and growth of maa was mainly out of their lifestyle. To roam the vastness, meeting new incoming communities. Attacking and enrolling collaborators. Having a ceremony to initiate new members to their tribe - as the Tiriki did, to be counted one among.

Identities were fluid. Changing over time. And fast. Often new people did not want to remain distinct in fear of stigmatisation. To pride in your origins would be equal to self betrayal. There would be consequences. Stories Down River Nile.

Down River Nile is a later story, Up River Nile an earlier story, 250,000 years ago. The craddle of ManKind is in East Africa. Where over time he was civilized enough to step out for adventure and conquering. Up the great river he went. To Arabia, to India, To America, later to Europe. The African Gold Age. And the world celebrated the Black Man, of good character and disposition. Contributing Cuneiform and Hieroglyrlphics to the world. And a system of education such that it applies to date. Greeks can tell.

Then came the Persians. To their own way. The sword and such. Tribulations. Tracing roots, coming home. Then came King James Version of the Bible. Racism. Then colonization and sadly, the modern economical and political standoff in African nations and African states fuelled by China and the West. Ideas against this can turn Africa back to greatness.

Africa, and so East Africa, is capable of providing for its own, people living freely, with pride. As communities of old, in the vast grasslands.

Pic; Historian Prof. Mwanzi and his relic car. With Lung'afa.

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