#UrbanUpdates: Joan Namutebi, a daughter to Gayaza High School has passed a week after her wedding. Joan & Derrick Wabwire wedded last Friday. Shortly after their wedding, they visited the Women’s Hospital International and Fertility Clinic Bukoto for birth control measures. 1/2
According to police, doctors advised her to take some water, to which she obliged before an IUD coil was inserted in her. After the procedure, she started feeling pain in the stomach, a headache & went into a comma until today morning when she died.
#UrbanUpdates: UNESCO has added Rhumba music to its cultural heritage list. Rhumba, one of the most influential genres of African music & dance now has Unesco-protected status thanks to a campaign by 2 countries - the DRC & neighbouring Congo-Brazzaville." 1/5 #NewVisionAT35
They both occupy what was once the ancient kingdom of Kongo - where the sinuous dance originated according to the two nations' joint application. The word "rumba" itself comes from the Kikongo word for navel, "Nkumba". 2/5 #UrbanUpdates#NewVisionAt35
Congolese rumba joins other living traditions such as Jamaican reggae music and Singaporean hawker food on Unesco's "intangible cultural heritage of humanity" list. 3/5 #UrbanUpdates#NewVisionAt35