KCCA festival shifted to October 12, 2025
To ensure proper preparations for the 63rd Independence celebrations, scheduled for October 9, 2025, the KCF 2025 festival has been rescheduled from October 5 to October 12, 2025. This means the festival will take place three days after the independence celebrations.
Sharifah Buzeki, the Executive Director Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) addressing journalists during a press conference at the Uganda Media Center on October 2, 2025. (Photo by Nancy Nanyonga)
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The Kampala City Festival, 2025 (KCF 2025), a highly anticipated eighth edition of this annual celebration, has been shifted to October 12, 2025, from the earlier date of October 5, 2025.
Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) executive director Hajjati Sharifah Buzeki on Thursday, October 2, 2025 while addressing journalists at the media center, explained the extension saying, “we have been guided that to provide adequate preparations for the 63rd independence celebrations which will be held on October 9, 2025, the KCF 2025 festival was shifted from October 5, to October 12, 2025, which will be three days after the celebrations. Kampala has been chosen to host the independence celebration on October 9, 2025,” Buzeki added.
(L-R) Sharifah Buzeki, the Executive Director KCCA, Rusoke Kituuma Spokesperson Uganda Police, Patrick Onyango Deputy Spokesperson Uganda Police and Sheila Birungi Director Gender Community Service and Chairperson organizing committee Kampala Festival. (Photo by Nancy Nanyonga)
She said ahead of the festival, KCCA had organised a series of events which included: a health camp, Kampala Cycling day, the car-free day and the "No Litter Day" across the city, where residents, students, leaders, and civil society groups joined hands to give the city a fresh face with a clean-up.
She stated that this year's festival will be more inclusive and will celebrate the rich diversity of Kampala in new and exciting ways. The festival aims to emphasise the importance of creative expression, sustainability, and culture as the city looks to its future.
“The festival will start with a procession from Buganda Road, Kyagwe Road- Kampala Road- Jinja Road-Wampewo Avenue to Kololo, where the main celebrations are supposed to be held. There we shall have fanfare in a number of zones. We have the Wanainchi exhibiting what they do, and we have the Christian village, which will be in Hotel Africana. We have the children's village, which will be inside Kololo, and then we have the Halaal village, which will be in Kololo, VIP village, corporate exhibitors’ space and the main stage,” Buzeki said.
Rusoke Kituuma, the Uganda Police Spokesperson addressing journalists during a press conference at the Uganda Media Center on October 2, 2025. (Photo by Nancy Nanyonga)
At the same event, the Uganda Police Force announced a number of tough security measures aimed at safeguarding revellers who will be attending the Kampala Capital City Authority festival slated for October 12, 2025.
Police Spokesperson Kituuma Rusoke, who spoke on behalf of the security agencies, noted that they sat at the inter-agency level and made threat assessments and estimates.
He also revealed that several roads in and around Kololo would be closed off and that no motorcycle rider would be allowed to ride beyond the closed-off points unless cleared by security. He urged the population to come out in huge numbers but adhere to the guidelines.