tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80397661490734196342024-03-16T21:52:07.087+03:00Travel & TravailIT | Music | Commentary | TravelDannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.comBlogger183125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039766149073419634.post-13401195324981762492023-01-04T12:31:00.016+03:002023-01-05T14:11:47.886+03:00Travel | Tubing the Nile: When Adventure Meets AdrenalineEmma is a sturdy
5' 5" tall sculler who worships his blue Kayak with the commitment of a
devout Jehovah's witness.
We see this
commitment when he makes a swift – and somewhat ritualistic ocean dive – right
at the edge of the Nile when we eventually choose to dare the world's longest
river.
Asked if this is
his way of making peace with the gods in exchange for a safe sail, a wry smile
is all we Dannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039766149073419634.post-43905926374790168072020-11-15T21:53:00.000+03:002020-11-15T21:53:00.939+03:00Music | 1986 – 2020: Ugandan Music Through the Years (4/4)On the international
scene, the external influence of our industry was most our award-winning
exports in George Okudi (KORA Award, 2003), Maurice Kirya (RFI Discovery award,
2010), Joel Ssebunjo (Visa Pour la Creation, 2010) and Eddy Kenzo (BET, 2015),
Bebe Cool (AFRIMA), Irene Namatovu (AFRIMA, 2018) and Sandra Nankoma (AFRIMA,
2018) among others.
Perhaps one could say a
decade is too long to Dannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039766149073419634.post-74877536729624005182020-09-19T13:53:00.005+03:002020-10-18T00:54:47.234+03:00Music | 1986 – 2020: Ugandan Music Through the Years (3/4)The dusk of 1999 had had Juliana
Kanyomozi and Iryn Namubiru team up to form the pioneer millennial Ugandan girl
group that they called I-jay, gliding under the parental tutelage of Hope
Mukasa and Steve Jean’s Fenon Records. Like the rest of the groups that sprang
after them, J-Jay could not run for long, eventually trading the partnership
for solo careers.Juliana and Iryn were only the
picks ofDannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039766149073419634.post-44286118533474463332020-04-13T00:17:00.002+03:002020-04-13T00:17:47.041+03:00Music | 1986 – 2020: Ugandan Music Through the Years (2/4)
The 90s was the era that blessed
us with nouveau pop talents such as Brenda Z'obbo, Bob Bashabe, Steve Jean,
Roger Mugisha, Peter Sematimba, Simon Base Kalema, Lillian Butere, Jenkins
Mukasa, Terry Divos, Jimmy Bageire, Rasta Rob and Shanks Vivi Dee. This crop of
artistes epitomized the influence of American culture that later led to the
proliferation of rap, pop and ragga music genres in Dannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039766149073419634.post-80052345978833216352020-02-06T21:18:00.001+03:002020-04-13T00:15:50.983+03:00Music | 1986 – 2020: Ugandan Music Through the Years (1/4)
1986 is a
year that many a Ugandan remembers for varied reasons – politics,
entertainment, sports or otherwise. In football, Diego Maradona’s crafty
handball eclipsed the month-long aesthetic advent of the Mexican wave to hand
the sport’s most coveted prize to Argentina.
In East
Africa, a third-world country had a brand-new decorated guerilla at its helm in
Yoweri Museveni; a man who the Dannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039766149073419634.post-7519532603048504612019-10-15T21:25:00.000+03:002019-10-17T12:32:18.581+03:00Travel | From Agra, With Love: A Peek Into The Taj Mahal
The Northern Indian city of Agra is not
one you’ll hear much about until the day you choose to visit its biggest
attraction – a 17th century marble mausoleum that continues to attract millions of tourists every year.
Completed in 1653 on a 42-acre expanse, the monument sits at the South bank of the Yamuna river; a name that
initially piques my curiosity when we first hit the tarmac on theDannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039766149073419634.post-15176883258896260972019-09-27T08:24:00.001+03:002019-09-27T08:52:37.253+03:00Random | How I Lost The Battle Against Weight
"And you, Mr.
[INSERT NAME]", he turned, eyes raging with the fury of an incensed
heavyweight boxer. "This is how you decided to screw us up on the day we
lost revenue. You love working in silos. So you went and worked in silos and
killed the service".
He then started a poetic tirade that made him sound like
the male version of an angry Rafeef Ziadah as the rest of us struggled to
stifle Dannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039766149073419634.post-319627339354587452019-06-12T08:57:00.001+03:002019-06-27T12:39:00.078+03:00Perspective | "I Wanted to Commit Suicide" – Ben Mwine
Our media has so mastered the
art of crafting screaming headlines that sometimes one will see one and choose
to ignore it because some of those headlines eventually turn out to be mere
bombast.
Such a headline gets you
thinking twice until you dig up the celebrated MC’s fortnight-old vlog chat
with retired radio veteran, Crystal Newman, posted on her Youtube channel at
the tail-end of last Dannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039766149073419634.post-76111786992171194262019-05-20T11:32:00.000+03:002019-05-21T18:38:05.162+03:00Health | Menstrual Hygiene: Every Woman’s Experience
To some, she’s Auntie Flo
because she comes with an associated flow. To others, she’s simply Auntie Rose because
they see red whenever she shows up. Rose draws its origins from Rossa, Italian
for red. We’re talking menstrual periods, many a woman’s worst nightmare.
First-time and regular episodes
alike continue to present varied experiences. From mild pain to excruciating
cramps, Dannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039766149073419634.post-60062174600181666952019-02-27T08:49:00.000+03:002019-02-28T17:37:22.130+03:00Perspective | On The Brand New Lt. General Muhoozi and Workplace Promotions<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Dannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039766149073419634.post-11201560541871730832019-02-18T09:05:00.003+03:002019-02-18T09:05:39.555+03:00Perspective | On MC Kats and The Art of Wearing a Songwriter's Hat
When Juliana Kanyomozi approached Silver Kyagulanyi for a song concept we
now know as Nabikoowa, the latter did not have to look far. She had just
severed ties with Amon Lukwago and was seeking to bury herself in an
alternative pastime.
Silver Kyagulanyi simply looked at Juliana's then life trajectory and
figured what would have been apt for her.
It was the same case for Chizzo, real
Dannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039766149073419634.post-25993006670026803422019-01-24T18:10:00.002+03:002019-02-04T14:35:41.954+03:00Tribute | Oliver Mtukudzi: The Odyssey of a Legend
Singer. Songwriter. Actor. Writer.
Film director. Philanthropist. Human rights activist. Entrepreneur. What would
be the best description of the colossus that was Oliver Mtukudzi? One could
rightly make a strong case for music, for it was the trade that sprang the rest
them to the fore.
Mention the name Oliver and music
in the same sentence, and two names will immediately spring to my mind. Dannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039766149073419634.post-24605834583118424582019-01-22T15:38:00.001+03:002019-01-22T19:27:29.564+03:00Perspective | Of Witchcraft, Religion & Regulation
"UCC switches off 23 radio stations for promoting witchcraft",
screamed a headline on the front page of The Observer edition of March 27,
2018.
There was mild – if not muted – response from the public, perhaps
because the purported witches did not have an official spokesperson in their
ideological dispensation, .
But having no public voice did not mean they were going to sit back and
letDannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039766149073419634.post-65904110456274808452019-01-12T17:21:00.001+03:002019-01-14T09:34:44.096+03:00Book Review | Courage: Learning to Live with Uncertainty
Sometime last month, my attention was drawn to
this book on the timeline of Naomi Kabarungi, the author’s unofficial Chief
Marketing Officer.
Timothy and I go way back, right from the time
we once almost caused a stir in primary school. We attended different schools
and had emerged the best two Maths pupils in the district mock exams that year.
A string of corrections meant that he and Dannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039766149073419634.post-69110664206280819282018-12-21T18:42:00.000+03:002019-02-17T21:53:46.689+03:00Music | The 2018 Ugandan Music Review
It must have been the most competitive 12 months the
industry has faced in a long time. Forget the brawls and cat fights of
yesteryear. This was the year of real hard hustle, or "work", like
that now famous slogan coined by comedian MC Kapale.
The dawn of the year had seen us lose the precocious
singing and writing talent that was Mowzey Radio, the departed singer breathing
his last on Dannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039766149073419634.post-23502131083951798402018-12-10T18:15:00.000+03:002018-12-11T18:34:58.675+03:00Miss Uganda | The Rise and Rise of Queen Quinn
Quinn Abenakyo. That’s the name on every Ugandan’s
lips – especially those that were privy to her heroics at the just concluded 68th
Miss World pageant. She finished second runner-up, and was subsequently crowned
Miss World, Africa. Today, she basks in her glory as the latest crown jewel on
Uganda’s beauty scene.
Born premature, at seven months in 1996, the nascent
Quinn had to endure a Dannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039766149073419634.post-33632357117456165482018-10-23T19:41:00.000+03:002018-10-30T08:24:54.325+03:00Feature | Nyege Nyege
“The name itself means: Sex!! Sex!!”, roared
Father Simon Lokodo, the Honorable Minister of Ethics and Integrity as he finally
emerged from a five-month public coma.
The most pious of Jjajja’s ministers, if
his title is anything to go by, was referring to the implied Swahili
translation of Nyege Nyege, the MTN-sponsored four-day Music festival that has
just about every owner of a decent Dannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039766149073419634.post-61346872583730683922018-10-23T19:38:00.000+03:002018-10-30T08:23:13.809+03:00Perspective | 106.1 FM, Nxt Radio
So, a new radio station set up shop in town while
we were away. Nxt Radio, the latest addition to the city’s airwaves, recently
acquired what was formerly known as Jazz FM at 106.1 FM.
Such has been the hype surrounding its inauguration
that I eventually succumbed to the bandwagon, choosing to give them a listen.
My maiden experience is on their breakfast show
where some chic runs the Dannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039766149073419634.post-48894073997599284352018-08-30T17:47:00.000+03:002018-08-30T18:19:05.751+03:00Perspective | Will King Saha fill Mowzey Radio's Shoes?
It
sounded like an idle joke when the rumor first did the rounds. Saha had just
done the intro on Weasel’s tribute to the departed Radio,
"Tokyayitaba".
Released
in such a haste that a song that should have been titled "Tayitaba"
ended up with that we now know as its official title, one would be forgiven for
glossing over Saha’s cameo, for he never did much more in the four-minute long
Dannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039766149073419634.post-65127682295269477872018-07-30T17:36:00.002+03:002018-08-30T18:16:12.307+03:00Music | Jubireewo: Of Budo’s swag and the two sides to Paul Saaka’s creativity
King’s College
Budo has been in the news for its role in the much-touted all-school stars
(that's what they called themselves) collaboration, a song that features
3,234,417 other schools. For a school whose products are known, or perhaps
stereotyped for bandying a pseudo-imperial persona, Budo's 30-second cameo is
everything "un-Budonian".
If it hadn’t been
for the purpose for which it was Dannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039766149073419634.post-55955138629271677412018-05-27T11:41:00.002+03:002018-07-30T17:34:27.462+03:00Music | Why Qute Kaye’s Rescue Should Be More Than Just A Knee-Jerk Reaction<!--[if !mso]>
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Resigned. Fired. Gone. Whatever. Yes, Arsene Wenger leaves Arsenal at the end of the season – that’s the latest news from London Colney. The long wait is over. Finally. Mama has given a signal.
Whoah! We can now watch football again.
With us, he leaves memories. The memorable quotes. The transformation. The sleek football. The training methods. The diet regime. The 3-1 against United in Dannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039766149073419634.post-47146200923746293562018-04-03T10:45:00.003+03:002018-04-03T18:55:49.128+03:00Tribute | Adios, Winnie<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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"I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS. People just submitted it. They trust me. Dumb fucks" – Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, 2004.
14 years since that infamous statement, Facebook’s founder finds himself in a spot of bother, following accusations of failure to protect users’ private data.
The data breach scandal comes against the backdrop of revelations that the British Dannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039766149073419634.post-77647866565700578022018-02-09T18:09:00.000+03:002018-02-12T13:37:22.478+03:00Perspective | A case for Weasel
Weasel:
ˈwiːz(ə)l
Verb
1. Achieve something by use of cunning or deceit. e.g: "she suspects me of trying to weasel my way into his affections".
Critics literally take this meaning to describe Weasel's role in the once dynamic duo that was Goodlyfe.
"He can't sing", they say.
But Weasel isn’t supposed to. He is a singjay. Forget the grammar. His style is ragamuffin. And ragamuffinsDannie BAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11148550920977516767noreply@blogger.com2