Author: Wamala

She opened her home. She opened her circle. She opened her heart. And according to Jowy Landa, some of the people she let in used every single one of those open doors to try and walk her career straight into the ground. The Ugandan singer — legally known as Joan Namugerwa — has officially reached her limit. In a fiery, unfiltered statement that has set social media ablaze and triggered a nationwide debate about friendship, loyalty, and the specific, exhausting betrayal that comes from people you once called your own, Jowy didn’t whisper her frustrations. She announced them. “Whoever I…

He looked at his daughter and saw a future minister. She looked at a DJ booth and saw a future empire. Turns out, one of them was significantly better at predicting the market. In a resurfaced interview that Uganda’s internet has been gleefully circulating for years, Frank Gashumba confidently declared that a young Sheilah Gashumba was destined for political greatness — a minister in the making, a future leader of the country. It became one of those predictions that the internet never quite let go of, especially as Sheilah built her name not in parliament but in party venues, media…

Azawi said play her music freely. Green Daddy said — not so fast. Uganda’s brand new copyright law had barely dried on President Museveni’s desk before the country’s music industry found its first flashpoint. And it arrived from a direction nobody quite expected — not from a label, not from a government body, but from a fellow artist watching a TV screen and asking the one question everybody else was apparently too polite to raise. Does Azawi actually have the authority to tell Ugandans to ignore the copyright rules that apply to her music? Or does Swangz Avenue? Green Daddy…

Uganda’s music industry is fracturing — and the fault lines just became impossible to ignore. On one side: a group of disgruntled artists, led by Ziza Bafana, threatening to walk away from the existing structure and build something new. On the other: Eddy Kenzo, BET Award winner, UNMF frontman, and apparently the last person in the room willing to pretend this isn’t a full-blown crisis. Kenzo didn’t call a press conference. He didn’t release a statement through a publicist. He stood up, spoke plainly, and delivered a message that landed somewhere between a firm institutional reminder and a very direct…

She had waited. Prayed. And at some point — quietly, painfully — she had given up. Then God, as she tells it, sent her Buka Chimey. As the Ugandan singer-songwriter and mental health activist marks another birthday, the gift he received wasn’t a party or a cake — it was a message from his wife, Mabel Namakula, known to fans as Empress, that hit the internet like a wave and left absolutely nobody dry-eyed. The tribute is tender, spiritual, specific, and searingly honest about what it feels like to almost miss the person you were always meant to find. Uganda…

Most artists, when offered a government gig, ask one question: how much? Reign Omusoyisoyi asked the same question — then quoted one billion shillings, laughed, and walked away. Uganda’s most outspoken comedian and singer has just made headlines for the kind of statement that gets people either celebrated or quietly blacklisted — sometimes both at the same time. In a candid interview that is now spreading faster than any punchline he has ever delivered on stage, Reign declared flatly that no offer, no fee, and no occasion would ever get him to perform for President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. His reason?…

The moment you post your relationship online, according to Reign Omusoyisoyi, you have already made your first mistake. Not because love isn’t worth celebrating. Not because your partner isn’t worth showing off. But because the second your relationship becomes public property, so does everything that goes wrong inside it. In a searingly honest sit-down with Roger Otis on The Deep Talk, Reign didn’t sugarcoat a single word. He came with a message that is going to make a lot of couples quietly delete their couple photos — and make a lot of single people feel very seen. “If you decide…

Shs140 million. A deleted video. A theft accusation. And now — a very public invitation to come with cameras and check the receipts live. Uganda’s music industry has seen its share of beef, but the growing dispute between Mudra D Viral and rising singer D Star over earnings from the Hoozambe remix has just entered a different stratosphere entirely. Mudra isn’t hiding. He isn’t deflecting. He is sitting down, looking directly into the camera, and telling anyone who will listen that the numbers being thrown around are flat-out wrong — and that he hasn’t even recovered what he put into…

The biggest song on the album almost didn’t get made. When producer Kaboo first sent A Pass the beat that would eventually become Buwooma, Uganda’s most feel-good track of the moment, the singer had absolutely nothing. No hook. No concept. No words. Just a beat sitting on his phone, quietly waiting. A week passed. Then A Pass sat down with a rolex — Uganda’s beloved street food of chapati wrapped around fried eggs — and everything changed. What happened next produced a song so infectious that it outlived every other track on the Miracles album, racked up views at a…

Kapa Cat, Kapa Cat album 2026, Uganda copyright law music, Uganda music industry, Kapa Cat Sanyuka TV, Uganda artists copyright, Kapa Cat singles, music business Uganda, copyright law Uganda artists, Kapa Cat interview, Uganda celebrity news, East Africa musi What happens when an artist works hard, drops a full album, and fans stream exactly one song — then leave? You stop making albums. That is precisely what Ugandan singer Kapa Cat has decided to do in 2026, and her reasoning goes far deeper than creative burnout or a busy schedule. In a refreshingly unfiltered appearance on Sanyuka TV, Kapa Cat…