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Uganda: Ndere Troupe Goes to Trinidad And Tobago
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New Vision (Kampala)
24 July 2008
Posted to the web 25 July 2008
Eddie Ssejjoba
Kampala
A team of 15 Ndere Cultural Troupe members have gone to Trinidad and Tobago to represent Uganda in this year's Emancipation Day celebrations.
The foreign affairs ministry permanent secretary, James Mugume and the Trinidad and Tobago high commissioner, Patrick Edwards, on Tuesday flagged off the delegation, led by the group director, Stephen Rwangyezi at Entebbe International Airport.
The cultural performers are scheduled to stage four shows before the main event on August 1.
Mugume said President Yoweri Museveni, who was the chief guest at last year's Emancipation Day celebrations, promised to send Uganda's best cultural group to entertain his counterpart.
Mugume added that Museveni was impressed by the diversity of the cultural set up in the Caribbean country, many of which have an attachment to Africa.
"This is a national mission that you are undertaking in fulfillment of the President's promise.
"As our ambassadors, you will have to showcase the best that we possess," Mugume told the troupe.
"These are our people in the Diaspora with true African blood."
The permanent secretary warned the group against getting involved in scandalous activities that will soil Uganda's image.
Ndere Troupe, Edwards said, would be the first group from East Africa to perform in Trinidad and Tobago.
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He said another group of 20 orphans, destitute children and four officials from SOS Children's Villages would on August 4 visit his country for a month on an exchange programme.
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