All girl music and poetry groups are still something of a novelty in Uganda. The ones that exist do not lend themselves to the cross-generational flow of a Supremes-inspired, TLC-tinged…
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IT was like a parallel universe of its own. The venue was characterized by furnishings ranging from the sportive to the minimalist-classical with simulated grass unfurled across the floor to…
SPOKEN word poetry and standup comedy are two sides of the same coin. Both of them involve standing in front of strangers while bathed in the spotlight, and talking until…
WE are all in denial. Ask the average person about love and he or she will turn up a chin to say: “I don’t believe in that nonsense” or simply…
CRAIG Woolum is an underground English comedian who is in Uganda for a few weeks and will perform at a KQ-curated show slated for November 1st at The Arena Sports…
TWENTY years ago, if you were a star on the silver screen it would represent a dramatic fall from grace to wind up on the small screen in a TV…
VICTORIA Adams is a poet, an accountant, a business director, a publisher, a doyenne of the arts and the driving force behind Songs of Kiguli. Songs of Kiguli is an…
THE 80s and 90s rap universe was home to the one-hit-wonder, pop-rap, fast-rhyming and No Half-Steppin.’ In this golden era of hip-hop, political rap cut across the national, cultural and…
WHENEVER I feel the urge to lay down my metaphorical pen and then plead writer’s block, I am inspired by the following words: “Spending five hours on a Saturday writing…
YOU have been knocked down, left sprawling on the canvas and out for the count. Like Bruce Springsteen in the song ‘The Streets of Philadelphia’, you are bruised and battered,…