One of East Africa’s most popular music festivals has been cleared to go ahead after members of parliament tried to ban it for “promoting gays” in the country. The Nyege Nyege festival will now take ...

Over the past decade, politics has consumed a generation of musicians, deeply dividing Uganda’s music industry, which analysts now predict has a bleak future. President Yoweri Museveni’s main ...

Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, popularly known as Bobi Wine, is a Ugandan music star and political leader currently in exile. Framing his movement as a "people power" struggle by young Ugandans for ...

Moses Matovu’s legacy is therefore larger than the microphone he held, the saxophone he played or the songs he composed. It ...

The proposed legislation seeks to modernize Uganda's copyright framework, align it with international standards, and ensure creators benefit more fairly from their intellectual work. Mao described the ...

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 ...

Ugandans woke up on Thursday to the sudden news of the death of veteran musician Moses Matovu, the saxophonist and founding figure of Afrigo Band, who died at the age of 77.Matovu, whose career in ...

Veteran Ugandan musician Moses Matovu, a founding member and longtime leader of Afrigo Band, has died aged 77 after sustaining injuries in an attack in Kampala. Matovu died at Kibuli Hospital on ...