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Urban Boys, Judith Heard promise top notch Rwanda/Burundi Night

The second edition of Rwanda/Burundi Night is slated for Saturday 29^th April at Cayenne Lounge and Restaurant. Singers Sheebah Karungi, Urban Boys from Rwanda, Bruce Melody, Kebby Bob from Burundi and DJs Africano and Franco are set to provide entertainment to the revellers.

Urban Boys performing in Uganda in a concert for the first time have promised top class act on stage.

The 9-year old group comprises of Safi Madiba, Humble Jizzo and Nizzo Kaboss. On the night, the group will also premiere their latest collabo with Ykee Benda titled ‘Nipe’. “On 29^th, Rwanda, Burundi and Ugandan partiers will be the first to hear this song,” Safi said in an interview with Showbiz Uganda.

“We have many surprises to our fans on Saturday. They will be the first people to listen to our new song with Ykee Benda titled ‘Nipe’. We are premiering it and we will also perform it on the night. Its video is premiering next week,” he added.

“On the night we shall have many people who speak Kinyarwanda and it’s a great opportunity for us to perform as well as sell our name to a bigger audience”.

On the Ugandan music industry, Safi said the industry is bigger than Rwanda’s. “We are just building from genocide mess and we appreciate what Ugandans do. Most Ugandans are professional and we hope to emulate them in the near future”.

Judith Heard with the Urban Boys yesterday at Cayenne ahead of the big do this week

Rwanda Music Industry is coming up. We are doing shows in Europe and in five years time, we will be pushing for greater heights. We are doing many collabos to capture bigger audience. In five years, we will be where other East African countries are”

“Ugandans and Rwandans are the same and when we are in Uganda it’s like being home away from home,” Safi said.

Sources close to the trio say the group is trying to be international as soon as they can. In their singing, they are using different languages to capture big fan base. Their plan is to be global stars who will be performing across the globe in the next five years.

Host of the night, Judith Heard, said partiers should expect a lot of surprises. “I will speak Kinyarwanda and I am honoured to be hosting the night for second time in a row”. All top celebs and friends are going to be around. Burundi, Rwanda and Canada friends are all coming. The first event was successful and we expect this to topple the first one.

“We are excited because Urban Boys are premiering their latest collabo with Ykee Benda titled ‘Nipe’…we are extremely excited. As a half Ugandan/Rwanda, am proud to host this event and its going to be amazing. It’s good for me to host again and this shows that people trust me and value me. We have got three DJs from Rwanda and Burundi as well Musicians…it’s a must attend night,” Judith Heard said. The night is sponsored by Castle Lite and Rwanda Air and entrance fee is 25k and 500K for a table of six people with a bottle of Jameson.

Enjoy Nipe lyrics by clicking on this link https://m.youtube.com/watch…

April 24, 2017
NTV Uganda in City clean up

This Saturday, the Umuganda initiative resumes and will be going to Kisenyi, an urban slum located in the heart of Kampala. The public will gather at Kisenyi Health Centre IV for a day of cleaning. The initiative, supported by Rwandair, NTV Uganda and Monitor Publications Limited (MPL) aims to keep Kampala and surrounding suburbs clean through citizen championed cleaning.

Kisenyi is known for piles of garbage and deplorable health and sanitation conditions. Sewage is constantly flowing next to the shanties that a large number of the slum population call home.

Kisenyi is also a breeding place for diseases due to the lack of proper sanitation facilities. Many of the slum occupants use hygienically unacceptable waste disposal means such as polythene bags for human and other waste which is then disposed in the drainage.

“The people living in Kisenyi are more disease-prone due to the poor sanitation and garbage disposal practices in the community. We want to change this by teaching them that cleaning can be a collective community responsibility that results in an improvement in living standards. This is also in continuation with NTV’s ‘I Move Uganda’ agenda through which we intend to set the pace in building a better country for ourselves and the generations to come. I call upon the public to join us this weekend,” said Collins Mugume, NTV’s Head of Marketing and Digital.

Umuganda which was launched in June this year is a community cleaning initiative whose philosophy is rooted in the role and responsibility all citizens have to play in keeping their environment clean. This will be the second time the activity takes place after the first one that was held in June in Banda.

July 28, 2016
Pop Music Global Phenomenon “Stromae” in homecoming Kigali Concert

Pop Music Global phenomenon brings his internationally acclaimed live show dubbed ‘Homecoming Tour’ in Rwanda this Saturday 17th October 2015 at ULK Stadium.

Stromae will perform in Rwanda this coming weekend

The concert is set to be the biggest live music show of the decade to take place in the East African region, attracting guests and tourists from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and beyond to Kigali for this grand affair. Gates will open at 4:00 p.m. music start at 6pm and the star will the stage at 8:00 p.m. [adrotate banner=”3″]

“Returning to Rwanda is going to be special, deep and really important. This is my origin – I will meet my family. I can imagine that it’s going be a lot of feelings and emotions as I discover my country,” said Stromae ahead of his return to Rwanda – via Al Jazeera.

Stromae concert poster

The ‘Alors on Danse’ and ‘Papaoutai’ Belgian singer is ecstatic to visit Rwanda, his father’s native. It’s the first time for Rwanda to host a major global player of the music industry at the peak of his success. For such a rare world-class multimedia concert, organizers and promoters have put all efforts to ensure a historic and memorable event.

Fly RwandAir to Kigali to see Stromae. Visit www.rwandair.com and book online to get ongoing discounted flight fares to Rwanda from East, Central, South and West Africa. Offer runs while seats last. In addition, RwandAir is supporting ISSANO Organization (Stromae’s hosts) and Rwanda Tourism to offer 20% off flights to Kigali (visit www.rwandair.com) to see Stromae (till Saturday 17th noon).

Following the cancellation of Stromae’s planned concert in Rwanda earlier this year after falling ill, Stromae is back in Africa to finish his Global Tour in Kigali – the birthplace of his father. This is following a triumphant Kinshasa concert, and North American tour concluding with a sold out show at New York legendary Madison Square Garden this October 2015.

October 13, 2015