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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. ...

It is good news to have a university in Kaimosi. This must be a modern time highest realization of the tell that two white lads on a mission to evangelize Africa (Kavirondo) climbed a tree in 1902 and looked at what is now Kaimosi complex and observed: "a stunningly beautiful, well-watered, fertile, and forested location; they perceived that it was “the place of God’s own choosing.” They, with great help of the community managed to establish Kaimosi mission. Since then the place has undergone progress and had its fair share of problems too. The vision however holds high.

The Luhya 

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