To miss or not miss out on Busara 2012
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- Published on Thursday, 09 February 2012 10:09
- Written by Moses Serugo
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I am giving Sauti za Busara a miss this year. Blame it on personal recession blues that have had me resolve to be more frugal in 2012 limiting expenditure to strictly essential items. Not that Sauti za Busara ranks as non-essential expenditure. In the past it has afforded me a sweet escape to Zanzibar, (oh Zanzibar!), that idyllic Indian Ocean island Sipho Hotstix Mabhuse sang about. Which is the sad bit about missing out on the festival this year after three successive pilgrimages in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Trust me, the SzB team knows how to put together an impressive array of musicians, the ones with the right energy to turn the Old Fort into one big four-day party. The rule here is to pay more attention to the musical “non-entities” on the festival programme. They have a knack of up-staging the more familiar names.
Cultural Tourism: 2012 reasons to visit Uganda
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- Published on Friday, 04 November 2011 14:22
- Written by Moses Serugo
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Lonely Planet’s ringing endorsement that lists Uganda as the top destination to visit in 2012 should give tourism industry players carte blanche to chest-thump louder than our much-prized silverback gorillas. The global travel publishing company describes Uganda as the “Cinderella in East Africa” in its 2012 Top 10 guide, out to get a bit of the shine our (not-so-ugly) sisters Tanzania and Kenya have been basking in as big-name safari destinations.
