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Forget `Angry Birds’

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Now you can play `Angry Brides’

A new Facebook app created by popular matrimonial website shaadi.com lets players fight ‘greedy grooms’ who demand dowry – a practice that stubbornly persists in India despite being outlawed more than 50 years ago. Th [ … ]

 

Why art?

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Renowned Ugandan author answers those who question the relevance of the arts

A woman, or was it a man, dressed in a white suit, slowly got up from her front-row seat at the National Theatre in Kampala, moved up the stairs and onto the dim dusty stage, and proceeded to gyrate slowly, achingly, as th [ … ]

 

Paa Joe: The Ghanan coffin maker

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Funerals in Ghana are known as celebration of life because the deceased is been escorted with the coffin of his occupation to the next world.

Ghaneans give new definition to the phrase `Going out in Style’ with their funeral practices.  I was recently in Accra at beginning of last month to film a d [ … ]

 

Hearts for art

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Creativity, innovation and experimentation sets a new pace for neighbourhood artists

With a host of art spaces and projects springing up,  all designed to foster creativity, innovation and experimentation of the arts, and extending art to the local people,  art in Uganda is evolving in a new direct [ … ]

 

Miraj Barot aka Tirupati

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He was born with a silver spoon that he has turned into gold

Rarely does a father entrust his life’s fortune to the stewardship of a toddler. But Miraj Barot, 23, began running his father’s business empire when he was only 14-years old.

His father, Hashad Barot, is the chairman and founder of Tiru [ … ]

 

Afrigo. Watoto. Jazz

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Christmas sounds of nostalgia, choir ethos  and peroxide jazz

What is Christmas without music? The very theme of the season demands it. Kampala during this last season witnessed man’s allegiance to music as it celebrated the sacred.

It started with Afrigo Band’s choice to celebrate its 36th annive [ … ]

 

Acid Jazz- A new phenomenon by Pragmo

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Acid Jazz- definition: ``Acid jazz is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, funk and hip-hop, particularly looped beats. It was developed in the UK over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic dance: jazz-funk musicians such as Roy Ayers, Don [ … ]

 

This is Uganda: Artwork in progress

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According to Eric Obonyo, a lanky and self-effacing young painter, This Is Uganda (TIU) is a festival about youthful expression in Uganda. It is a social network linking young people from different parts of the world through culture. He thinks that this year’s festival was better than last year’s, a [ … ]

 

Deconstructing Cranes failure on the big stage

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A classic metaphor that has been widely used by cognitive psychologists goes as follows: “A drunken man was looking for his car keys under the street lights. When a woman passing by asks him if he dropped his keys by the street lights, the drunken man answers ‘no, but the light is better here.” This [ … ]

 
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Muteesasira DAvid Says:
2012-02-04 15:27:03
The government of Uganda released money for the youth, and Stanbic Bank  was amog the selected banks to take part in distribution process. So my request is   that what are the requirements in orde

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2012-02-04 16:36:07

Thanks for the correction Peter.


 
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