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It’s a public party
By Lindsey Kukunda
It is the final day of the festivities. But if want to
do more to see the Bayimba Festival – and Ugandan arts – grow bigger, the end of the event does
not mean you have to wait one more year to enjoy
‘Bayimba’.
Next month the foundation will officially launch
the Bayimba Membership Club. Anyone is free to
join – for a little or a lot.
“You can donate Shs100, Shs10,000 and even
one Shs1,000,000”, said Faisal Kiwewa, the Festival
Director when he opened the VIP Nest. “However,
the more you donate, the more benefits you will
receive.”
Tempting words.
With membership comes your contribution to
keeping arts alive all year round.
All members will be privy to information about
Bayimba workshops and festivities throughout the
year, and will be invited to special events for members only.
The artists are there for the people. It is time for
the people to be there for the artists.
New dawn for
rising artistes in
East Africa
A growing cluster of arts and music festivals
in the East African region has prompted a call
for an artistes touring circuit.
Festival directors from Sawa Sawa and Sauti
za Busara, as well as organisers from 15 arts
organisations in the region bunkered down in
a Kampala hotel to work out how they could
practically collaborate in setting up an artistes
touring circuit.
Getting artistes from West to East Africa, for
example, is a costly business. But through cooperation between festivals and arts promoters, the newly formed East African Performing
Arts Circuit may make it easier for artistes to
hop from one festival to another.
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Features
The people’s festival
By Dominic Muwanguzi
It wasn’t that long ago you’d be scorned if you talked
about organizing an arts festival. Are you mad? Nobody will come! The best you could hope for was that
people would come, for the wrong reason, to gorge on
free muchomo or ogle at the female artistes.
In fact, that’s what happened in 2008. “The first Bayimba festival attracted only 60 people over three days,”
said Faisal Kiwewa, the Bayimba Festival director.
Fast forward to the present: the mood has changed.
At any given festival around Kampala you will see
thousands sharing the groove.
The groove has been the primary selling point of
these festivals. At the recent World Music Day Festival held at Alliance Francaise in May, the turn up was
impressive. A huge chunk of Ugandans dominated the
crowd reversing the norm of white domination at a
world music festival.
Bayimba has tapped into that swelling Ugandan
audience and, its organisers argue, has largely fuelled
the arts festival phenomenon with its infectious atmosphere of music, dance, fashion shows, theatre and art
exhibitions pulsating in one single venue space.
The other incredible facet of the Bayimba festival in
Kampala is that artistes come from Lira, Mbale, Masaka,
Mbarara, Arua and all over this country of ours where
they have performed already at smaller regional venues. “Bayimba has held several mini- festivals in different regions of the country and all the artistes who participated in these festivals are going to share the same
stage at the major festival,” Grace Atuhaire the publicist
of the Bayimba Cultural Foundation says.
Perhaps, this is why Bayimba’s brand is becoming
more successful. Arts from all over Uganda find their
way to the capital. This is what sets it apart. This is Bayimba’s festival clout.
As festivals go it’s no heavyweight yet. Compared
with Sauti za Busara in Zanzibar and Sawa Sawa in Kenya, Bayimba lacks the headline acts. But it passionately nurtures its own. And that is a strong foundation for
any arts festival. As anyone can tell you, it’s the home
crowd that counts. Whatever you may feel about the
performances at Bayimba 2011 they are by, with and of
the people of Uganda.
Culture begins at home.
Muserebende’s
home again…
By Emmanuel Ssejjengo
An ardent admirer of the late Elly Wamala, Ssali Hytham Muserebende’s
performances have often cut across a variety of genres. A percussionist,
his lyrics are cemented by Ganda folklore that entices his audiences to
sing along.
His finely tuned vocals, blended together with re-vamped melodies
and catchy experimentation of the ‘thumb’ piano, tube
fiddle, a variation of
African drums backed up
by Western keyboards, percussion and
bass make Ssali’s
performances groovy and
vibrant.
Muserebende
has performed at the last
three editions
of the Bayimba Festival,
and has released
two musical albums.
Like many
of his counterparts,
Muserebende
spends
most
of his performance
time abroad.
But those
who caught
him on the
main stage
were happy to
see him home.
EDITOR:
Emmanuel Ssejjengo
DESIGN & LAYOUT:
Gilbert Mwijuke
CONTRIBUTORS:
Dominic Muwanguzi, Edgar R. Batte, Lindsey
Kukunda, James Otai, Joeblack Manyire, Thomas Bjornskau
PHOTOS:
Thomas Bjornskau, Edgar R. Batte and Raphael Khisa
New dawn for rising
artistes in East Africa
By Dominic Muwanguzi
A growing cluster of arts and music festivals in
the East African region has prompted a call for
an artistes touring circuit.
Festival directors from Sawa Sawa and Sauti
za Busara, as well as organisers from 15 arts organisations in the region bunkered down in a
Kampala hotel to work out how they could practically collaborate in setting up an artistes touring circuit.
Getting artistes from West to East Africa, for
example, is a costly business. But through cooperation between festivals and arts promoters,
the newly formed East African Performing Arts
Circuit may make it easier for artistes to hop
from one festival to another.
Hilda Kiel, the coordinator of the East African
Tour Circuit, said: “We are going to work on touring artists in East Africa and also create a mailing
list where information can be exchanged between artists and festival organizers,”
Though Rwanda and Burundi did not attend
the forum, Ms. Kiel was happy that the first steps
had been taken. “We must start with something
and I am glad that we have done so with this
conference,” she said.
Back in April 2011, the same directors met in
Harare to set up a larger Pan-African music festival network. Pretty soon it became clear at that
meeting that the problems faced in West Africa
were different from those in the East. The West
Africans, awash with visual and music culture,
mainly cried out for infrastructural help. Top of
East Africa’s priorities was a need to ‘share’ the
expense of bringing costly headline acts from all
over Africa.
It is largely believed by many arts promoters
that it would be easy to fund arts in the region
if a regional body was formed because donors
prefer sponsoring forums with wider coverage
and bigger audiences.
“Multi-national companies like Airtel are
present in most Africa countries, so they would
be more than willing to get on board if a regional circuit is formed,” says Marion Van Dijck, cofounder, Trustee and Director of Sarakasi which
organises the Sawa Sawa festival in Kenya.
With regional integration of the arts fostered
by the East Africa arts Touring Circuit now in
place, the sponsorship jinx will soon be a relic
of the past.
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Arts
Books
Where are the books?
By Emmanuel Ssejjengo
It is called the Bayimba Festival of Music and the Arts and, in its
way, it is an umbrella of popular and traditional art and culture
in various forms.
But this umbrella doesn’t cover all the arts. There is a big, gaping hole in Bayimba’s coverage of Ugandan arts. Just where are
the books?
Is it simply that Bayimba hasn’t bothered about books? Or, is it
that Bayimba is simply reflecting the true state of Ugandan culture that Ugandans just do not read? Even the cynic in me finds
it unsettling to look around and see a festival devoid of books.
In any society, books are the higher forms of art and culture.
But here, you do not find anything particularly dedicated to authors. If it were the music industry, journalists would be falling
over themselves to meet-and-greet a foreign artiste. My ideal
at an arts festival would be to meet my favourite author (never
mind local or international), have a chat with him/her and ask
questions that would enrich my appreciation of books.
The majority of Ugandans are such bad readers. They are actually non-readers. Not even the regular press realizes that books
are missing at a big arts festival. So everyone simply falls in
love with Bayimba and claim that it covers all the arts.
“Bayimba Cultural Foundation partnered with FEMRITE
during the literary week of activities this year,” says Grace
Atuhaire, the foundation’s spokesperson.
Banana and maize vendors are proving to be more serious than our publishers. Not a single publisher has taken
up a stall and the only book that you could buy was Mercy
Mirembe’s Semitego. And we then complain about Uganda’s poor reading culture?
Book lovers should not frown at the festival, though.
There is hope. “We are looking forward to hosting several
literary activities,” says Grace Atuhaire.
As an oral leaning society Ugandans find pleasure in oral
literature. The Lantern Meet of Poets gives us that pleasure. If we cannot read the books, we shall at least listen to
them.
Experience has taught me that Bayimba takes criticism
seriously. Last year, I bitterly complained about the Foundation’s (mis) treatment of drama. The published programme
listed Diamonds’ Production as a drama group. It is a music
band and the drama group is called Diamonds’ Ensemble.
This year, Bayimba replied to the criticism by introducing
street theatre to Uganda.
My wish for 2012 is to meet my favourite authors so I can
deconstruct their books with them. If Bayimba can fulfill
that wish, then I will proudly shout “For God and My Country.”
For where is a culture that doesn’t include books?
Art
Music
More artistes take
on luga/ugaflow
By Joe Black Manyire
The Uganda hip hop revolution began around the
mid 1990s.
It was particularly popular among university students who started out by imitating their western
world idols, like Tupac and The Notorious BIG.
But years later, some ambitious youngsters came
up with a new style of rapping in their native languages. This became known as lugaflow.
Lugaflow became Uganda’s definition of hip hop
even though some local rappers argue that this
genre of music does not represent all Uganda’s languages.
They qualify this by saying that Luga comes
from the word “Luganda” which is a language
originating from central Uganda.
But the burning question is: who will lay
claim to the inventor of lugaflow? Well,
Young Vibrations, DJ Berry, Kaddo Milestone and Mc Afrik, are some of the
artistes considered the pioneers of
lugaflow style of music.
However, it was not until Babaluku, Momo Mc, Lyrical G, Slob Mc
and later Saba Saba under their
collective name Bataka Under-
ground, appeared on the scene, that lugaflow began
to get resounding approval.
Hip hop in Uganda has become so mainstream and
diverse that it has split hip hop artists into factions.
This has seen the birth of ugaflow, made popular
by Atlas da African and Navio among others. This
style of hip hop is more urban.
Navio has become one of the top hip hop artists
that have successfully managed to crossover and
collaborate with other various hip hop and RnB artists, both locally and internationally.
Navio was given a rare opportunity when he got
to be part of the ONE8 project that brought together
various top African artists who recorded the much
acclaimed inspirational song Hands Across the
World, alongside R.Kelly.
Bayimba Cultural Foundation director,
Faisal Kiwewa, said he wants to use success
stories like Navio’s to motivate the young
and upcoming hip hop artists.
The fact that Navio is lined up to perform alongside the Kampala Symphony Orchestra is proof of Bayimba’s
determination to encourage the
budding hip hop artists in Uganda
to diversify.
Bayimba’s tatoo village
By James Otai
“People with tattoos are artists who make use of artistic knowledge
in designing, “says the managing director, Suat Tattoos Munir Suat
said. Tattoos come is various shapes and designs. Fish, scorpion,
snake images are some of the common fauna symbols around. R
religious figures are also highly regarded.
Good tattoos are loaded with meaning. The skull tattoo depicts hard
times while others make historical statements.
Tattoos can build a person self esteem. They are status symbols.
They are fashionable ornaments. One Tattoo takes close to 2-7 hours
to be done and could cost between Shs 50,000-70,000.
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Art
Conceptual art comes
alive at Bayimba fest
Nathan Kiwere of Amakula Kampala
Cultural Foundation sauntered around
the artworks on show….
Have the visual arts come of
age this season of Bayimba? Will
the picture finally speak the proverbial thousand words and perhaps outfox the motor-mouthed
musicians?
A seasoned local visual artist
told this reporter that the reason
why he was not showcasing his
work at this year’s festival was
because ‘Bayimba’ connotes music/singing, which, he said, was
‘disrespectful’ of the visual arts.
He also viewed the fellow artists
that were exhibiting at the do as
‘traitors’ because they know well
enough that visual art is different
from music.
But is it not the case that the
arts are “brothers and sisters”?
Can artistes from different disciplines not live together, work
together and share the same
stage? And of course many artists saw nothing stopping them
from exhibiting at Bayimba and
went all out to put on a show.
Samson Senkaaba, famously
known as Xenson, with the help
of his brother Katende, put his
trademark conceptual art on
display in the National Theatre
foyer. His installation is as wacky
as they come and certainly a perfect representation of what the
art world knows him for.
Conceptual Art has variously
been defined as a contemporary form of artistic representation, in which a specific concept
or idea, often personal, complex
and inclusive, takes shape in an
abstract, nonconforming manner, based upon a negation of
aesthetic principles. Xenson’s
usually futuristic and conceptual
ideas stem from this form of expression and what he presents
this time around is no different.
A wooden painted sculptural
mannequin designed by fellow
local artist Waddimba Edward,
was used as a display model. The
dummy is then festooned with a
white bark cloth, sisal and beadwork wrought in paperwork.
“This is a museum piece,” said
Katende the co-artist. “We have
noticed with concern that there
are no fashion designs on display in the museum; all you find
are elements of material culture,
sculpture, carvings and
painting.” The piece depicts a female figure
adorned in a bubble
dress with an abstract
head clad in cascading
hair. One young trendy
observer said, “I like the
‘Africanness’ about the
piece; the bark cloth, the
creativity, everything…”
Her companion had no
comment because she
could not make sense of
what confronted her.
The rest of the art works
on display, apart from the
crafts, were the usual oil on
canvas paintings that can
easily be found on most gallery walls. As the visual arts
struggle to find their rightful
place in the jigsaw puzzle of
the arts, these close interactions will remain a matter of
necessity. So, as some artists
will not have their works included in the Bayimba arts festival, the go-getters will gladly
join the choir and let their works
sing along with their ‘relatives’.
ABOVE: Waddimba
Edward stands beside
his wooden painted
sculptural mannequin.
BELOW: Xenson also
put his trademark conceptual art on display
in the National Theatre
foyer.
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Arts
Dance
Businessman 'Chickn' (played by Jamie
Robinson) dances with sex trade worker
'Gigi' (played by Nawa Nicole Simon)
in the stage production of Gas Girls by
playwright Donna-Michelle. The play is
about two friends, Gigi and Lola, who
sell their bodies for gas to truck drivers
who stop near the border of Zimbabwe.
Gigi understands the business and Lola
is just learning her trade. Both girls however, are not willing to settle down for
their lot in life, and yearn for something
more. The playwright intends to create
a theatre or dance piece about every
African country, recognising the challenges that each country faces. The play
garnered Donna-Michell four Dora Award
nominations. Donna-Michell is also a
musician, known as hip-hop and spoken
word artist Belladonna. This evening,
she performs in the concert auditorium
of the national theatre in collaboration
with various Ugandan local artists.
Fashion
Fashion
Ria Williams is wearing cowrie shells, chiffon, bright
orange lipstick and a full shock of hair. Not a lot, but
that was the point at the kick-off of the fashion show
held by the Modeling School of Uganda yesterday.
She represented a message that the school wanted
to send out to Ugandans as 'Safe Sex Monument'.
The chiffon symbolized the importance of the in-flow
and out-flow of knowledge in the same way chiffon
also needs to be imported into the country. Her cowrie shells reflected her attachment to her indigenous
roots and culture. Her aura, hairstyle and make
up showed confidence and forwardness. The
message was for people to aspire to not be afraid
of who they are, but to stand tall and proud
because of it. In short, approach safe sex with
this much aggression and confidence.
Joe Black (Yes, that's his real name) holds up a t-shirt he fancies in his right hand. The image of a
crested crane is printed on the t-shirt and he points at it as if to let the shirt know that it's next on his
list of must-buys. His urban hip-hop look appears to be at odds with his current item of choice until you
peer closely at his left breast pocket. The name 'Joe Black' is engraved in a V-shape. This is a man who
likes his clothes customized. He said television has had a great influence on his sense of style and his
idols are hip hop artists which accounts for his 'bling-bling' cap. He sports dreadlocks because he likes
his hair long, and “it's much less of a hassle to have dreads than to comb it”.
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Artistes
Rachel Magoola
Rachel is a very talented singer, songwriter and
dancer from Uganda. Her compositions contain
elements of languages and traditional rhythms
from all regions of Uganda, as well as reggae and
zouk - a talent for which she is highly respected.
For more than 10 years she taught music at the
prominent Kaliro Primary Teacher’s College. Her
contribution to the curriculum, festivals and other music events was immeasurable. During those
days, it was important for Rachel to develop her
own singing career, and she joined Afrigo, Uganda’s best-known band.
Afrigo’s songs are frequently heard on Ugandan radio pop charts. The band benefitted from
Rachel’s knowledge of traditional songs and
dances from all over Uganda. She arranged a lot
of Afrigo’s music as well as choreography. Some
of her songs carry special messages about health,
like ‘Take Me As I Am’, which was made for the
Sickle Cell Association of Uganda. Another song,
‘I Am Not a Toy’, emphasises the importance of
girls getting good education.
Ivulungo
Afro-folk music is the heart of this Busoga-based
group founded in 2005. The group’s director,
Ivulungo Jonathan, is a radio presenter on 102.3
Eastern Voice FM morning crew, Kanayokya Ani.
Ivulungo has managed to compose and produce
five albums: Ligidha emiziki, Guumula, Mwinho
Akugha, Bokotolo, Kyekweko.
M-Lisada
Life-changing
musical
training at Lisada, a children’s home in Nsambya,
Kampala, has blossomed
into what is now a cultural music and dance
troupe. In the mid-1990’s,
a handful of street kids
explored their desire
to play trumpet. From
that, a brass band blossomed, and a home for
the street kids was born.
Over time, their passion
attracted more children
and the band soon began performing at functions. The kids supported
themselves making the
music that they love. Now
the troupe boasts cultural
dancers and acrobats,
too, and is reaching out
to primary and secondary
schools in the Kampala
area. Through their example, they send a message
of hope to other children
to stay away from dangers such as drugs. Their
optimistic mission has endeared them to teachers
and parents as well and
made Lisada a popular
mover and shaker in nurturing talent.
Benon Mugumbya
As a child, Benon listened to a lot of music
during his free time.
This inspired him to
become a musician.
Later he joined Namasagali College, which
is a school renowned
for developing talents. “I met Elvis Kirya
aka Vamposs and our
friendship
picked
up from there, even
though we were two
different minds embracing different kinds
of music. Vamposs
was doing his reggae thing, while I did
my R’n’B vocals, but
then we united and
did small gigs,” Benon
says.
After bringing new
sounds to East Africa
as a producer, Benon
launched his solo
project with the emotional and sentimental song ‘Hope’. This
was the first single off
the album ‘Olunaku
Olupya’, released late
2010. He has been
working with different
artists like Klear Kut,
Lyrical G, Babaluku of
Bavubuka Foundation,
to name a few.
“I think the Ugandan
media should cover a
broader range of the
music scene, instead
of just advocating a
few particular artists,”
Benon recently told
a hip-hop magazine.
“By doing so, the talented artists will get
the recognition they
deserve.”
Mad Rat
“My name is Ssentongo Mugwanja from a family of 5 children belonging to Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Makumbi Mugwanya. I had early education in simple primary in
primary six up to senior six but I never got the UACE certificate due to financial
constraints.
I started chasing my music carrier commercially and performed in school tours like
St. Elizabeth Nkoowe, St Francis Primary School and up country. In 2009, I started
attending party shows in town and up country (lower, home Kampala among others) under squad entitled Tears Of Africa Family (TOFF).” So speaks Mad Rat. He
joined Bon Fire Uganda at the national theatre in 2009. His first release, Make a
decision react… attracted attention and spilled into another recording, Wandisula
(you night lose), followed by 3 more tracks, Corruption and Make A Decision. Mad
Rat wants to establish a music squad /crew based on local instruments like drums,
adungu, ensasi and xylophone.
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Artistes
Ngoni
Patrick Nyanzi aka Pato and Eddie Dumba Mpagi
aka Aydee make up the duo. They started music in
school choirs and churches. They met at Makere college school, where they studied music but Ngoni
was born in 2000 when Pato (at MUBS) and Aydee
(at Nkumba) were university students. The name
Ngoni represents all the struggles and victories the
duo experiences in their music career. Ngoni produce most of their songs and they have collaborated
with artistes all over East Africa. In 2005 they had one
of their biggest song Digi, leading to several music
nominations in the region. They also produce for
artistes Benon Mugumbya, Juliana, Iryn Namubiru,
Chameleon, Tonix and others. Although the duo has
an R & B and soul musical background they continually experiment with a lot of different sounds and
styles.
Mzungu Kichaa
ensen was among the first artists, like Juma Nature, TID, Mangwair,
d Professor Jay, to record at Bongo Records in Dar es Salaam in the
hat’s when he got his artist’s name Mzungu Kichaa, “crazy white man”.
a supporting role, mainly as backing vocalist. He then went to the UK
undergraduate studies in Music and Cultural Anthropology. After finMA in African Studies he founded a group, Effigong, in 2006. In 2008
out as a solo artist and recorded his first album a year later on the
ent label, Caravan Records. Songs like Jitolee (feat. Professor Jay) or
were in Kiswahili and focused on social problems in Tanzania, like povoured Tanzania and Kenya to promote the album and followed up with
nces in Denmark with the backing group, ReCulture.
Donna-Michelle
Donna-Michelle St Bernard (aka Belladonna) is a
wordsmith working in hip
hop, spoken word, theatre
and interdisciplinary creation. Recent works include
Gas Girls, Salome’s Clothes,
Threepiece (playwright),
The Movement Project’s
How We Forgot Here,
Yvette Nolan’s Job’s Wife,
John Field’s Oops!, Marika
Schwandt’s Mullato Nation (director), Terminal
Five with the Artists Play
Collective (dancer), and
hip hop EPs the bridge/ is
over and Off My Chest (vocalist).
Donna-Michelle is the
General Manager of Native
Earth Performing Arts and
Artistic Director of New
Harlem Productions.
“I intend to create some
sort of theatre or dance
piece about every African country, recognizing
the challenges that each
faces,” she recently told a
Canadian magazine.
Sebastian Sentamu
An academically qualified civil engineer, Sebastian chose to follow his passion and creativity
into music composition, singing and traditional
dancing. He has worked with a number of music
associations, groups and bands. He discovered his
talent, aged 18, singing in the Golden Gate church
choir in Bbunga Ggaba. He was part of the Big
Five Band between 1995 and 1998, and as a vocalist with Nyonza Singers featured in the awardwinning film, The Last King of Scotland. With ABO
Gospel Sounds he turned composer, and record a
number of songs before the group toured to the
UK and Northern Ireland. Sebastian is possessed
of a great voice and versatile creativity.
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Programme
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Bayimba Cultural Foundation and its programmes are
supported by its principal partners DOEN Foundation,
HIVOS and the Danish Council for Culture and Development while this year’s Bayimba International Festival of
the Arts is brought to you through support of Uganda
Telecom Ltd, Pinnacle Security, Air Uganda and in partnership with the Commonwealth Foundation, Mimeta,
the Netherlands Embassy Kampala, the Mondriaan
Foundation, Alliance Française, Goethe Zentrum Kampala, Uganda National Cultural Centre, Maisha Film Lab,
Amakula Cultural Foundation, Record TV, NBS TV, Capital FM, Dembe FM, Radiocity, Radio Bilali, The Workzine,
The Reporter, Sunrise, Razor, Cake Festival Uganda, DMarck, Rwenzori, Renewills, Instabul Restaurant, Casablanca Restaurant, Jephis Saloon, Alba Photo Studio,
Uganda Modeling School, Safi, Theater Factory, UHMG,
Metro FM, Radio Sapientia, Guide2Uganda, Wine Garage and Elyt Magazine.