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Nyege Nyege music festival in Uganda continues despite terror warnings – and with less pressure from morality police

Nyege Nyege music festival in Uganda continues despite terror warnings – and with less pressure from morality police

FIRST staged in 2015, the globally touted Nyege Nyege Festival in Uganda is an annual four-day dance party featuring hundreds of deejays. It’s also a major tourism drawcard that caters to 15,000-odd lovers of electronic dance music. However, Nyege Nyege is most often in the headlines for creating controversy. Last year the event, the first after a three-year break due to COVID-19, nearly didn’t happen. Uganda’s parliament banned it – and not for the first time – on the grounds that it promoted “sexual immorality”. Eventually, the prime minister gave it the go-ahead. This year the festival, being held at…
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Baaba Maal back with new music, ‘Glastonbury of Africa’ festival hopes

Baaba Maal back with new music, ‘Glastonbury of Africa’ festival hopes

WHEN Baaba Maal released his last album “The Traveller” in 2016, the Senegalese singer and guitarist wasn’t sure he would put out another record. Six years on, he is back with a new single celebrating the fishermen of his local community in northern Senegal, the first track released from the new album coming out in 2023. "I thought...I did so many albums and I’m going make a break and just focus on all the engagements with my family and then suddenly, my body, my soul, my heart, my spirit, everything did remind me that I’m an artist," he said in…
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S.Africa festival halted after 36 test positive for COVID on site

S.Africa festival halted after 36 test positive for COVID on site

ROGAN WARD ORGANISERS halted a music festival for young people on the South African coast on Wednesday after 36 people tested positive for COVID-19 at the site, the latest impact from a new wave of infections sweeping across the country. South Africa has found itself in the international spotlight since announcing last week that it had detected the new Omicron variant, which the World Health Organisation said posed a very high global risk of infection surges. New infections in the country rose to 4,373 cases on Tuesday from 2,273 on Monday. Omicron is expected to trigger a fourth wave, with…
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