Sports Club could encrypt their name on the winner’s list of the Uganda Premier League again after 19 years of waiting. The jinx of failing to secure League success could be soon over after earning a vital win over Blacks Power FC on Tuesday at Wankulukuku. The 1-0 win coupled with results from the other […]
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Theatre in Uganda has suffered from the policies of those in power that allow them to syphon off what little resources are available for the sector. In the 1960s, Elvania Zirimu, Robert Serumaga, and others made theater productions that questioned the place of intellectuals in the newly-independent Uganda. Byron Kawaddwa’s allegorical theater questioned the excesses […]
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There is a line in the late AKA and Nasty C`s “Lemonade” that goes “People say hip hop died, that’s nonsense”, and while South Africa’s amapiano scene is currently in the midst of a major global moment, there is still a massive appetite for South African hip hop, which is, in part, being fed by music […]
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Hip-hop has quickly taken root in the Kenyan popular music scene, with local artists building on the genre’s American roots, translating it to the local context and using it to transform the lifestyles of young people in urban centres. The story of Kenya resembles a chapter from the book Animal Farm, with continuous struggles that have shaped […]
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Lil Kim was overcome with emotion during a backstage meeting with Janet Jackson after opening up for the superstar songstress on her Together Again tour. The NYC legend was filling in for supporting act Ludacris at the PPL Center on May 18 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Lil Kim paid tribute to Michael Jackson during her set, recreating […]
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On Friday, UNCC officially inaugurated the festivities at the National Theatre, featuring a range of activities that highlight the significance of culture. These activities include film screenings, theater performances, exhibitions, workshops, and speeches. During the launch, Francis Peter Ojede, the Executive Director of UNCC, emphasized the importance of culture for the arts and culture sector. […]
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St Mary’s Boarding Secondary School Kitende won the 2023 Uganda Secondary Schools Sports Association (USSSA) boys’ football championship played in For Portal tourism city. Habib Oloya, a player attached to Wakiso Giants in the StarTimes Uganda Premier League scored the all-important goal of the game well attended match played at Nyakasura playground 1 on Saturday, […]
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In 2015, UCLA fraternity Sigma Phi Epsilon and sorority Alpha Phi hosted a Kanye West-themed party inspiring its majority-white student population in attendance to dote extra baggy clothing, artificially plumped lips, and faces blackened by charcoal as a costume. On the surface level, these students are playing off of common stereotypes of black people as […]
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In cities, suburbs, and rural communities across the United States, their neighborhoods remain stubbornly segregated along racial and ethnic lines. A typical white person lives in a neighborhood that is 75 percent white and only 8 percent African American, whereas a typical African American person lives in a neighborhood that is only 35 percent white […]
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Slap Dee’s “mother tongue” music video featuring Daev Zambian hip-hop artist Slap Dee’s 2020 album “Mother Tongue” celebrates women, love, Zambian culture and Zambian languages. Slap Dee glorifies Africa in the song “mother tongue” featuring Daev. He raps, “I rise in an African song/sleeping in an African moon.” These lyrics insinuate the African ‘song’ and […]
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