Nyege Nyege: Sell-out crowd at 'immoral' Ugandan music festival

Key Facts

• Image source, AFP Image caption, The music carried on throughout the day and night 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".
• Image source, AFP Image caption, The festival takes place on the banks of the River Nile In order to get permission to proceed with the festival, the organisers had to ensure there were no sex orgies, nudity, vulgar language, songs, expressions or gestures.
• One British man told the AFP news agency that he had never heard of the festival until the threat to ban it.
• Image source, AFP Image caption, Uganda's Cindy Sanyu is among the best known of the artists who performed Tickets for the four-day festival have sold out on its website, which says more than 150 artists from across Africa and Europe were playing across its four stages.

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