After a two year hiatus, Nyege Nyege Festival is back with a new, bigger location and a full line-up. The seventh edition of the Uganda-based festival will run from September 15 to 18 taking place at ...

On Sunday afternoon, Ms Rebecca Kadaga, the 1st Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East Africa Community Affairs, went groovy at the Nyege Nyege Festival in Jinja District despite a parliamentary ...

Nyege Nyege, a well-known dance music festival in Uganda, will continue later this month despite pleas from some Ugandan MPs to cancel it. According to local media reports, Ugandan Prime Minister ...

All roads are leading to Itanda Falls in Uganda's eastern tourism city of Jinja this weekend, where revellers are gathering and pitching camp for this year's edition of the Nyege Nyege Music Festival.

Techno, soukous, abstract electronics – the Nyege Nyege collective draws from the cultural melting pot of Kampala’s music scene. But unlike other European visitors, it also gives something back 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 ...

These words were spoken by Derek Debru, one of the two leaders of Africa’s most innovative music festival in Uganda near the city of Jinja, in an interview for the weekly newspaper The Kampala Sun to ...

Thousands of revellers from across East Africa and the world have gathered for Uganda's Nyege Nyege festival which was allowed to go ahead despite a threat to ban it because of "immorality". Critics ...

This year’s festival is being held at a combined space covering about 50 acres surrounding the source of the Nile; Jinja Showgrounds, Jinja Golf Course and Source Gardens. Photos/Gabriel Buule From ...

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