On the same weekend we killed two birds at ago. We recorded 10 video songs of which album is expected out in May 2008. We also recorded the play TARYANGUZI which will also be released as a DVD.
We have a lot of plays that we shall roll out in other parts of the country after the Taryanguzi play shows.
On request/orders, we compose radio adverts, jingos and songs. Also on early booking, we compose special songs for Weddings and Give away parties with names of the bride or bridegroom etc.
Private companies, NGOs, Institutions, and Government departments can contact us to compose a play/song covering a Topic of their choice and this can be done in less than a week.
Yours Felix Basiime, Publicity Secretary.
Below read a story by a journalist who attended the show
Akayo milks tears out of viewers’ eyes!
By Ebenezer T. Bifubyeka
Mbarara, Western Uganda.
VIEWERS’ ecstatic leisure time turned into a mourning spree last weekend as Akayo singers (drama section) shot their hearts with a play showcasing child abuse!
Anguish befell upon the audience, especially women, when a housewife parted her matrimonial home in tears after her younger husband chased her away – leaving her son, James behind, in floods of tears. Then tears of sympathy dropped out of the viewers’ eyes as the step mum caned James - all-day and daily - like she is hitting a venomous snake!
Taryanguzi (‘God doesn’t take bribes’), a play spiced up by a gospel song after each scene, started as Rwabuhororo happily married Mauda, who is older but wise. He left this hardworking woman at their home in Kabale and went to look for a job in Kampala. Being a Young man, actually a boy, he bumped into a young girl on Luwum Street.
In the process of apologising for bumping into her and cause her bag to fall in the mud, the two fell in love. The girl took Rwabuhororo to her home in Kansanga, in the suburb of Kampala. She took good care of him, which seduced Rwabuhororo to marry her - forgetting his loving, caring and born-again wife back home.
He convinced that girl to come home with him to Kabale - the incident that resulted into the chucking of Mauda, his first and old wife. This marked the end of James’ smile on his face. After a few days, the husband returned to Kampala.
The step mother, who came with her daughter aged about 15, overloaded this small boy with domestic chores. She couldn’t let her illegitimate daughter do anything.
Fortunately,’ James’ grandfather visited Rwabuhororo’s home and found the step-mother bludgeoning his grandson (James) as if he was an armed robber! He sent a warning to Rwabuhororo in Kampala that James could die anytime due to unceasing canes accompanied by starvation. Rwabuhororo came immediately, chased away the wicked wife and his daughter and took James to Kampala and educated him up to the university.
On his graduation day, Rwabuhororo invites Mauda, James’ old mother and confessed to her, vowing that he will never disappoint her again. Coins and paper-money from the viewers surrounded James on stage - as he handed over presents to his father, mother, step-sister (who used to steal yellow bananas for him) and relatives - including his step mother that rendered him scars on the face and at the back - besides sleepless nights.
Commenting on Taryanguzi after watching it at Mbarara catholic social centre, the woman MP for Mbarara district, Emma Boona said, “Stop torturing children for they get psychologically tortured, which results into mental problems!”
She added that later in life, such step-mothers go to seek financial assistance from the children they mistreated! And so says, the 12-year-old boy, Paul Taremwa, one of Akoyo singers/actors.
Taremwa, the only young actor in this gospel group, said; “Mothers present inhere, please treat your step-children like your own. If you mistreat them, they lose conscience and develop mental disorders!” This statement again stimulated tears in the eyes of some women in the audience.
The patron of Mbarara-based Akayo singers, Felix B. Basiime said that Akayo, which started in 1995, will travel across the country – staging the same play, which he hopes will provoke step-mothers to stop torturing the helpless but innocent children.
Meanwhile, the 19-member Akayo singers has become the first choice for people holding public functions. Akayo, which balances gender sensitivity by nine males to 10 females, has recorded its dramatised songs and plays on CDs and VCDs.
Some of Akayo’s albums are Omwaana, Chingaho, Titukiinemushango, Amatsiko g’omuntu, Mugume muhame, Tusingwire, and Iguraho. Basiime said that more albums are to be released in April and August this year – both audio and visual. Basiime said their play; Taryanguzi is to be released on video discs too.
Besides prominence, Akayo singers, whose members are parishioners of Mbarara seventh day Adventist church at Kakiika in Mbarara municipality, has benefited high market for their music and touching plays that sensitise about domestic violence.
According to Akayo’s chairperson, Gertrude Tumusiime, the group is facing some challenges. She said their members reside in distant districts. Some study from Kampala and others are working from Bushenyi and Kabale districts.
“We find it expensive to transport all our members for rehearsals and presentations. Good enough, the team members are highly dedicated although most of them are students,” said Tumusiime, who amused the viewers with fascinating latest strokes of Lingala!
Asked about Akayo’s future prospects, Tumusiime said they intend to buy a group’s vehicle. She said sometimes they fail to go to some areas where they are invited to - due to transport constraints.
She said they will buy a sound system too because they are finding it costly and inconveniencing to hire it. However, for easy communication and publicity, Akayo has linked itself to the global computer network via: www.akayo.blogspot.com
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