Lights out parties the in-thing
Jul 01, 2011
PURE best describes this latest innovation by the university students. Introduced at the beginning of the second semester of the academic year 2010/2011, these parties started from Makerere University and spread like Ebola to universities all over the country.
By Didas Kisembo
PURE best describes this latest innovation by the university students. Introduced at the beginning of the second semester of the academic year 2010/2011, these parties started from Makerere University and spread like Ebola to universities all over the country.
So you all must be wondering what ‘Lights out parties’ are. Simple, they are just an amplified and rather bewildering version of what we all know as ‘house parties’.
Difference here is, the participates at these lights out parties are so much more daring and risk-prone that one would have to be overly cautious when invited to such parties.
Excessive booze, loud music, rowdy youth and closed rooms constitute just a fraction of what transpires at such parties.
Isabella (not real name), found herself at one such party without full knowledge of what she was getting into. “I attended this drink-up at one of the hostels in Makerere Kikoni.
We took some wine and danced until around 9:00pm when one of the boys who was drunk turned off the lights suddenly,†she says.
What followed is a narrative of bizarre events as enmeshed in her next statement. “The boys started ‘Raba-dubbing’ us in very humiliating ways and some girls who were high could not even resist.â€
What happened to the drunken ladies is one issue I would rather leave to your imagination. But for argument’s sake, what chance of resistance did they stand in their drunken stupor against the evidently ill-intentioned boys?
According to Isabella, some of her friends have birthed children from these parties, which is strange, considering the painstaking difficulties that the girl would go through in identifying the father of the child since the room was dark and she was in a lucid state.
Talking to a few other persons that have attended such parties, more grisly details were availed about the contents of the alcohol that’s served at these parties.
Fortuned by the blanket of darkness, the hosts usually introduce neutralisers like lime, sunqick and quencher to the alcohol especially in spirits and wines. This is meant to alleviate their burning effect and sweeten them, much to the ladies’ delight since they always love sweet things.
What happens next is a situation where we have a bunch of extremely defenceless and vulnerable ladies and the other of charged up young men in a dark closed up room. Nature then takes its course or better yet, the law of the jungle prevails.
The music like Bend Over by RDX, Show It by Demarco, and My Miss by Coco Finger are played to set the mood. They are also strategically employed with the goal of making the ladies shake their bodies’.
To appreciate the reach of these lights outs parties, one has to set out to the various hostels and halls of residence at Makerere, Kyambogo, UCU, Mukono and MUST in Mbarara.
On average, there’s a party at any of those places on each day of the week. They are usually staged under the guise of birthday parties and drink-ups. Their duration is trans-night, so one has to endure from dusk till dawn.
For the party animals out there, these parties are proving to be the ultimate thing and the place to be. But caution and vigilance must be exercised at such occasions.
Before the semester ends.
I guess that is the cycle of life at campus.
PURE best describes this latest innovation by the university students. Introduced at the beginning of the second semester of the academic year 2010/2011, these parties started from Makerere University and spread like Ebola to universities all over the country.
So you all must be wondering what ‘Lights out parties’ are. Simple, they are just an amplified and rather bewildering version of what we all know as ‘house parties’.
Difference here is, the participates at these lights out parties are so much more daring and risk-prone that one would have to be overly cautious when invited to such parties.
Excessive booze, loud music, rowdy youth and closed rooms constitute just a fraction of what transpires at such parties.
Isabella (not real name), found herself at one such party without full knowledge of what she was getting into. “I attended this drink-up at one of the hostels in Makerere Kikoni.
We took some wine and danced until around 9:00pm when one of the boys who was drunk turned off the lights suddenly,†she says.
What followed is a narrative of bizarre events as enmeshed in her next statement. “The boys started ‘Raba-dubbing’ us in very humiliating ways and some girls who were high could not even resist.â€
What happened to the drunken ladies is one issue I would rather leave to your imagination. But for argument’s sake, what chance of resistance did they stand in their drunken stupor against the evidently ill-intentioned boys?
According to Isabella, some of her friends have birthed children from these parties, which is strange, considering the painstaking difficulties that the girl would go through in identifying the father of the child since the room was dark and she was in a lucid state.
Talking to a few other persons that have attended such parties, more grisly details were availed about the contents of the alcohol that’s served at these parties.
Fortuned by the blanket of darkness, the hosts usually introduce neutralisers like lime, sunqick and quencher to the alcohol especially in spirits and wines. This is meant to alleviate their burning effect and sweeten them, much to the ladies’ delight since they always love sweet things.
What happens next is a situation where we have a bunch of extremely defenceless and vulnerable ladies and the other of charged up young men in a dark closed up room. Nature then takes its course or better yet, the law of the jungle prevails.
The music like Bend Over by RDX, Show It by Demarco, and My Miss by Coco Finger are played to set the mood. They are also strategically employed with the goal of making the ladies shake their bodies’.
To appreciate the reach of these lights outs parties, one has to set out to the various hostels and halls of residence at Makerere, Kyambogo, UCU, Mukono and MUST in Mbarara.
On average, there’s a party at any of those places on each day of the week. They are usually staged under the guise of birthday parties and drink-ups. Their duration is trans-night, so one has to endure from dusk till dawn.
For the party animals out there, these parties are proving to be the ultimate thing and the place to be. But caution and vigilance must be exercised at such occasions.
Before the semester ends.
I guess that is the cycle of life at campus.