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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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The Maragoli community is passive on LGBTQIA+



A man playing a puppet eagle during a 2022 circumcision ceremony of the Maragoli in Nandi

The Maragoli are not afraid to detest the queer agenda. Neither is it a minority issue locally. It is not known how many Maragolis are secretly queer, whether the community can curse, chastise attempters, disown and banish them to unknown lands. It is not in its power to be combative today.

With a history of suppressed queerness, the queer Maragoli folks today can hardly be silenced as they find brotherhood (and sisterhood and crosshood?) in the secular societies cropping up. The new societies are characterized by suffocative moderation, playing victim, individualism, money and anything that works for the moment. This is a good breeding ground for deviations, secret cultures and more harm than good for the society, reserved for the powers there be.

The limits do matter in Maragoli society. Does it have to be so open that an innocent/curious teen sees (and apes - for humans are good apes) what is happening? No. Here is a situation where grown ups are being deliberate. There is little self respect, as if it is dicriminating to be in order and disorder is freedom. Much as you may not run into a man wearing 'suggestively' on the street, they are flooding social media with insinuations. Sure there, a son is protected from the death blow of the father while the daughter from the teeth of the mother. 

To publicly disagree or defame the queer is not the best way. It is also not the Maragoli way today. It may have been when things that held Maragoli society were still together. To put an eye (two) and an ear (two) while speaking less (one mouth) is the way. Much as it is against the community ethos, minorities today are part of external communities. It is evident that those with nothing to lose would enjoy the mayhem that comes with disagreements and be more intentional in deriving unnecessary lifestyles around. 

As the Maragoli community snowballs in different times, it should not belittle its core, safety to those who have little or nothing to improve themselves by the acquired mass. It is in the core that we can learn how the community approached straight and queerness and how it protected both from the extremes of either; with intention to contribute on healthy sexuality from an indigenous best practice.

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