Diplomacy shelved at Sebunjo show
Jan 18, 2010
JOEL Sebunjo, probably Uganda’s best hand at the kora, will soon tour the world. Since charity begins at home, his first concert was held in Uganda, at Ndere Centre on Friday. If Sebunjo is planning to treat diplomats elsewhere like he did at Ndere Centre, he is going to shock the world for he mad
By Emmanuel Ssejjengo
JOEL Sebunjo, probably Uganda’s best hand at the kora, will soon tour the world. Since charity begins at home, his first concert was held in Uganda, at Ndere Centre on Friday.
If Sebunjo is planning to treat diplomats elsewhere like he did at Ndere Centre, he is going to shock the world for he made diplomats dance like they were common folk. They begged, pleaded, haggled for encore like children would over ice cream.
And they are not to blame. It was the overwhelming talent of Sebunjo and his Sundiata band that easily made you forget about who you were. He gave us the first love song he composed in his Madi dialects and the first song he composed on a kora. Then he took us back to pre-historic times with folk music with songs like Omusaggo gw’abanene and Ndalidde.
But it was not only his audience that was overwhelmed. Sebunjo too got very excited and stopped referring to his programme notes. By the end of the night, we did not know which song title we were dancing to.
Sebunjo and the Sundiata Band are some of Uganda’s representatives in the forthcoming “Sauti za Basara Festivalâ€.
JOEL Sebunjo, probably Uganda’s best hand at the kora, will soon tour the world. Since charity begins at home, his first concert was held in Uganda, at Ndere Centre on Friday.
If Sebunjo is planning to treat diplomats elsewhere like he did at Ndere Centre, he is going to shock the world for he made diplomats dance like they were common folk. They begged, pleaded, haggled for encore like children would over ice cream.
And they are not to blame. It was the overwhelming talent of Sebunjo and his Sundiata band that easily made you forget about who you were. He gave us the first love song he composed in his Madi dialects and the first song he composed on a kora. Then he took us back to pre-historic times with folk music with songs like Omusaggo gw’abanene and Ndalidde.
But it was not only his audience that was overwhelmed. Sebunjo too got very excited and stopped referring to his programme notes. By the end of the night, we did not know which song title we were dancing to.
Sebunjo and the Sundiata Band are some of Uganda’s representatives in the forthcoming “Sauti za Basara Festivalâ€.