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Music Landmark

Afrigo Band

founded 1975

Uganda's longest-running and most popular live band

Landmark is level 2 of 4 in the Uganda Hall of Fame: a first that opened a door, or the pre-eminent figure of their generation in this country. See how the levels work.

Why they are here

Fifty years, twenty-two albums and more than two hundred songs. If there has been a wedding, a rally or a party in Uganda since 1975, Afrigo has probably played it.

Afrigo Band was founded in 1975 with an initial line-up of eight musicians, and is Uganda's longest-lasting band and arguably its most popular live act.

Its music draws on Congolese rumba alongside Ugandan traditional rhythms and folk song. Across four decades it has produced twenty-two albums and over two hundred songs.
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