ENTERTAINMENT | ARTISTES | VULGAR LANGUAGE  

KAMPALA - The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development has called upon all artistes to desist from using vulgar language while performing.

Speaking to New Vision, Lubega Bakaye, the assistant commissioner culture at the Gender ministry, called upon musicians to be disciplined so that the music sector can grow.

“You earn from your art, you must do it as a business. Do not just enjoy it. So you have to be disciplined, dress well and avoid using vulgar language. The content you produce must be acceptable within the law. Whatever you do in art must be in the law. We are not going to accept people who hide in the industry to do illegal things,” Bakaye, said.

Bakaye called upon all artistes to practice freedom of expression with responsibility.

“We are working with different Associations to make sure that artists abide by the law and they know what is expected from them,” Bakaye said.

Bakaye made the remarks Thursday at Hotel Africana during the launch of Uganda’s Quadrennial periodic report 2020, which highlights the current Uganda Culture Policy and policy measures that the Government has put in place in the last four years to provide an enabling environment for the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions. 

On April 8, Uganda ratified the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. 

The Convention obliges the State to provide a periodic report every four years.

While launching the report, Dominic Mafwabi Gidudu, the minister in charge of Disability affairs, said that the Gender ministry is committed to strengthening the structures under the Culture and Creative Industry and to ensuring the approval of the Culture Policy before the end of this year.

The policy will promote sustainable human rights-based systems of governance for culture and equitable access to cultural opportunities.

“My ministry is working hand-in-hand with the public and private partners to encourage the creation of artistic and cultural content that reflects Uganda’s diversity and to facilitate access to that content by domestic and international audiences,” Mafwabi said.