Leading CULTURE

A one hour drive from Kampala to the east is the town of Jinja situated on the shores of Lake Victoria (Nalubaale) it is also the home of the source of river Nile. Omuga Kiriya is its original name (locally in Lusoga) before being seen by the British explorer John Hanning Speke in 1862, he had solved a great  mystery boggling the minds of Europeans about the origins of this great river which poured its waters in the Mediterranean Sea having journeyed through Uganda, Sudan and finally Egypt. It is only recently that the mighty river Nile was declared a…
Thursday, 11 April 2013 16:53

The Dynamic Street Acrobat

Every morning, armed with a back pack containing two empty vodka bottles and a stick, three straw hats, three circles of woven straw, two old motorcycle rims, two small wooden boards about two feet long each and a cut metallic water pipe, Hassan heads to Kampala city to work. He is a “street acrobat”, anywhere on the pavements of the busy city traffic and congestion; he sets up his tools and starts performing. Then by challenging passersby, he stands on his hands and walks easily around the other working tools, hoping, standing on one hand, lowering his chest until he…
Saturday, 09 March 2013 11:34

Theatre: A Platform For Life Issues

Adong Judith Lucy is the 2012 prestigious winner of the Fulbright Scholarship for Film Making at Temple University where she is currently. Adong’s writing career began in theatre and was followed by her full time script writing job on the popular Ugandan radio serial drama, Rock point 256 (2005). Her writing is however not limited to the performing arts, she is a published writer with Macmillan and Fountain Publishers with a number of children’s story books in her Mother tongue Acholi as well as an Acholi-English Dictionary.
Friday, 08 February 2013 15:48

African Teams Warm Up For Tournament

The Africa cup of nation’s (AFCON) football tournament has been played since 1957 being hosted every two years by different African nations, the last one having been played in 2012 hosted concurrently in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. However for the first time in the history of the competition, it is going to be contested for hardly a year after the previous edition. Confederation of African Football, the organizers, made this move in order to avoid the nation’s cup coinciding with the FIFA world cup. The winner of the 2013 nation’s cup will automatically qualify for the 2014 FIFA world cup…
The first Nile Diaspora International Film Festival (NDIFF) is finally here! The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), which is tasked with the film industry in Uganda, co-sponsored the event that took place at the HUB Cinema of Oasis Mall - Kampala. Founded by Canadian-based Ugandan film producing couple Xena Bantarizah and Phad Mutumba of Simpli Phaz Entertainment, NDIFF is an indigenous not-for-profit cultural organisation whose mission is to transform the way people see the world through film. The opening event took place at the Sheraton Kampala Hotel on December 7, 2012, and the festival that ran from December 7-15, 2012, attracted…
Friday, 23 November 2012 08:07

The Timeless ‘Lugabire’

Sandals are fashionable footwear especially when worn for relaxationon weekends and holidays, they are especially made from different types of leather and animal skins  in a variation of colors to suite a buyer’s taste. But imagine sandals made of rubber cut out ofrefused car tyres! Yes, in Uganda and many other African countries it is fashionable towear sandals made out of this material. A group of young men from the district of Pakwach in north western Uganda are earning a modest living by making these much sought after rubber sandals; “can kelo ryeko” is the motto which drives them, literallytranslated…
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