New film helps raise awareness on drowning prevention Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | Reach A Hand Africa has premiered Balance the Boat, a docufilm revisiting the November 2018 MV Templer boat tragedy on Lake Victoria, to highlight the importance of water safety and the urgent need to prevent …
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Kasagga’s solo show, The Witness, explores human’s relationship with the universe by drawing on his past and present personal experiences with the moon, a giant mirror, to demystify the concept of the unseen in our everyday life and how it impacts us. ARTS | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | How …
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Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | The organising committee of the iKON Awards has announced the unveiling of nominees for the 4th iKON Awards slated for Saturday, 24th October 2026. The nominee reveal sets the stage for the awards night slated for 12th December 2026 at Serena Hotel, Kampala, under …
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African Film Leaders Call for Cross-Border Partnerships to Grow Continent’s Film Industry Johannesburg, South Africa | THE INDEPENDENT | African filmmakers and industry leaders have called for stronger cross-border partnerships, investment and business structures to help the continent’s film industry reach wider audiences and become more commercially sustainable. …
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Muwonge Kyazze borrows from his experience of working with stained glass for many years to create a body of work that explores themes of co-existence, custodianship, collective memory and nourishment using banana fruit and cultural objects as metaphors. ARTS | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | There is a certain level …
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Small Budget, Strong Story SPECIAL FEATURE | ARTS | For independent filmmakers, a limited budget does not have to mean a limited story. With the right creative and practical decisions, filmmakers can turn resource constraints into opportunities to produce compelling films that reach audiences beyond their home markets. …
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ADDIS ABABA | Xinhua | A photo exhibition featuring China-Africa cooperation was held in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, on Thursday to review and further promote the ever-growing ties between the two sides. The photo exhibition, which encompasses about 60 historical images, was arranged under five different topics, namely …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tattooing in Uganda is no longer confined to the edges of the creative scene. In Kampala, a growing number of artists are turning the human body into a canvas, combining drawing and design with a technical process that requires precision, knowledge of skin and …
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SPECIAL FEATURE | THE INDEPENDENT | Brenda Zalwango ranks among the most prominent and widely recognised digital personalities in Uganda today, with a public profile that very few Ugandan creators can match in either scale or breadth. Where most social media figures build a single identity — as a …
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From a senior art lecturer at Makerere University Art School to now a full-time artist in his retirement, Paul Lubowa uses his phase in his life to self- discover himself as an artist and individual, and through the process creates art that permeate with new energy and rhythm. …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
