Shanitah Namuyimbwa — known publicly as Bad Black — is stepping into a new role, and she is bringing an entire room of women with her.
Through her organisation, the Namuyimbwa Women Development Initiative Uganda LTD, she has announced Beauty Beyond The Scars — an all-female empowerment event set for 12th September 2026 at Kabira Country Club in Bukoto, Kampala. The event runs from 8 AM to 7 PM and is built around a single, clear message: your past does not define your future.
Beauty Beyond The Scars is not a concert or a networking event dressed up with empowerment language. It is designed, from the ground up, as a space for women to sit with difficult experiences and walk away with something useful — whether that is perspective, connection, or simply the knowledge that they are not alone in what they have carried.
The event will feature a star-studded lineup of female artists, public figures, and media personalities serving as panelists, each bringing their own unfiltered stories to the conversation. The programme will also address health awareness and new beginnings, with speakers drawing directly from personal experience rather than theory.
The framing is intentional. Bad Black and her team have described Beauty Beyond The Scars as a safe space — one where women will be encouraged, inspired, educated, and reminded of their worth, regardless of where they are coming from or what they have been through.
Tickets are currently available at three price points. Early bird tickets are priced at UGX 50,000, ordinary tickets at UGX 100,000, and VIP access at UGX 500,000. Tickets can be purchased through Momo Ticketing at momoticketing.com/event/beauty-beyond-the-scars.
The venue — Kabira Country Club in Bukoto — provides a setting that matches the event’s ambitions. It is a space associated with significant occasions, and its selection signals that this is being treated as exactly that.
Bad Black is one of Uganda’s most recognisable and at times polarising public figures — a woman whose life story has played out in public across multiple chapters, not all of them easy. That history is precisely what gives her the credibility to anchor an event built around the idea that scars do not have to be the final word on a person’s story.
The Namuyimbwa Women Development Initiative represents a deliberate pivot toward community impact — an organisational vehicle through which she is channelling her platform into something with tangible purpose. Beauty Beyond The Scars is the initiative’s most visible activation to date.
The event joins a growing calendar of women-focused empowerment gatherings in Uganda, reflecting a wider cultural moment in which conversations about healing, identity, and self-worth are finding increasingly large and engaged audiences.
Events like Beauty Beyond The Scars matter because the conversations they create rarely happen anywhere else.
Uganda has no shortage of women carrying experiences they have never had a structured space to process — experiences of loss, abuse, stigma, health challenges, or simply the quiet weight of not feeling like enough. An all-day gathering that brings female voices of influence into direct conversation with an audience of women navigating those same realities is not a small thing.
The full-day format — eight hours, running from morning to early evening — also signals a commitment to depth over spectacle. This is not a two-hour panel followed by cocktails. It is a sustained experience designed to leave something behind.
The title of the event carries its own weight.
Beauty Beyond The Scars does not ask women to pretend their difficult experiences did not happen. It asks them to consider that those experiences are not the whole of who they are — and that beyond them, something worth celebrating still exists.
For Bad Black to be the person hosting that conversation, in a public space, with her own history visible to everyone in the room, is a statement in itself. She is not positioning herself as someone who has transcended her past. She is positioning herself as someone who has learned to live alongside it — and who believes other women can too.
Beauty Beyond The Scars is set for 12th September 2026 at Kabira Country Club, Bukoto — and if the vision behind it is anything to go by, it is shaping up to be one of the more meaningful gatherings on Uganda’s events calendar this year.
Tickets are available now. The early bird price will not last.