Ddumba Peter

#YNWA

[Arn!e. 仁 @gittaarnie]

The Bombo-Gulu highway corridor is quietly heading toward a far worse structural breakdown than Jinja Road. While everyone talks about the eastern approach, the northern throat through Bwaise, Kawempe, and Matugga is running out of physical room to survive. 🧵

[Partick Thistle FC Youth Academy @YoungJags_]

Sebs Hat trick on his international Debut ⚽️⚽️⚽️

[Ddumba Peter @DdumbaPeter]

It has been worth it #MyXAnniversary

[Ddumba Peter @DdumbaPeter]

A day to remember for Seb @BBCWorld

[FUFA Tv @fufatv1]

8-0. ⚽️ ⚽️⚽️ Seb Fisher completes his hattrick!

#u17afconq | #fufatvupdates

[Nsubuga Najib Ssekikubo @NajibSsekikubo]

This is a very important case pointing us to the need to respect our naming traditions. Okubbula is part of our naming traditions, but when it is done, the person should also be given their clan name. Their case is fair, worst scenario is a person where the two clans are different. Where a man of the Nyonyi clan meets a girl carrying their granmothers clan from the Mamba clan without the Nyonyi clan name. By the time they know that they come from the same clan ng'ebintu byasoba ddaa...

[Ddumba Peter @DdumbaPeter]

How do we celebrate 64 years of independence when we have not had water for the past 8 days? @nwscug @NWSCMD @DailyMonitor @newvisionwire

[Angelo Izama @Opiaiya]

This clip is going around ( as an explainer for the depreciation of the shilling and associated problems) but it is misleading. The bill never passed in the condition that @BOU_Official was addressing. The factors driving the sharp fall of the shilling are different and can be tackled separately ( it has both winners and losers). I expect the Governor to explain these currents and what the Central Bank has capacity to do to respond to it @SarahBireete

[BBS TEREFAYINA @bbstvug]

Abaana 21 Bawonye Obulwadde bwa Kkookolo , Babadde Bajjanjabibwa mu Ddwaliro e Mulago. #Gambuuze

[Nicholas Bamulanzeki @bamulanzeki]

After the symbolic mock fight and night procession via Mugabante, incoming king Edward Rukidi Kijanangoma has arrived at Karuziika Palace.

He is now inside Karuziika ahead of his coronation tomorrow as the 14th Omukama of Tooro Kingdom.

#TooroCoronation #TooroKingdom #Karuziika @observerug

[Mujuni Raymond @qataharraymond]

My small tribute to Afrigo’s maestro, Uganda’s legendary saxophonist Moses Matovu;

10yrs ago, a plan was made to rebuild the National Theatre into a twin tower building. It looked like an innocent plan, the idea was to increase revenue

[Patrick Oyulu, MPH @patrickoyulu]

https://t.co/XSQ1StbnRF

[Mark Ssali @MarkSsali]

To me a long time friend and mentor. To all of us a pioneer, revolutionary, father figure, role model, national icon. Whoever said one can't be a genius and genuinely good person at the same time, didnt meet him. Rest well legend, so long.

[Elison Karuhanga @elisonk]

Moses Matovu gave Uganda music that did more than entertain us. He gave us songs that became part of our language, our humour, our memories and, sometimes, our own personal stories.

For me, #OliMujjawaMusajjaAsingaNze became one of those songs. It became part of the soundtrack of my campaign to represent the Uganda Law Society on the Judicial Service Commission.

There was something about that song that fitted the journey perfectly: confidence, humour, mischief, even a little swagger. And through it all, unmistakably, Moses Matovu.

And you cannot really speak about Moses Matovu without speaking about Afrigo Band. Afrigo became more than a band. It became an institution, a keeper of memories, one of those rare threads running through generations of Ugandan life. Parents danced to Afrigo. Their children danced to Afrigo. And somehow, through changing times, changing tastes and changing generations, the music endured.

That was part of Moses Matovu’s remarkable gift. He did not simply make music for his own generation. He helped create music that outlived moments, fashions and seasons. A song written years ago could suddenly find itself on a campaign trail, at a wedding, on a long drive, or in the middle of a conversation among friends, sounding as alive as ever.

That is what great musicians do. They write the song, and then they give it away to the rest of us. We carry it into our own lives and attach it to our own memories.

Today, Uganda has lost one of those men.

And today, the question belongs to him.

Oli mujawa, omusajja asinga oyo.

Rest well, Moses Matovu. Afrigo will play on. And so will the music.

[SC Villa @SCVillaJogoo]

One of Us from the Beginning. 💙

A Jogoo at heart, a servant of the club, and part of our story from the very beginning.

Rest well, Mr. Moses Matovu. 🕊️

#TheJogoos🔵

[#JohnSegawaArts🇺🇬 @JoSsegawa]

Today Uganda weeps.
The entertainment industry stands silent in shock.
A legend has been taken from us in a way that is still incomprehensible.

Moses Matovu [Papa Moi] was more than the long-serving leader of Afrigo Band, Uganda’s longest-running musical institution. He was a founding father of modern Ugandan live-band music. From the days of Thunderbirds and Cranes Band in the late 1960s, through the formation of Afrigo on 31 August 1975, he carried the flame for more than five decades. Saxophonist, vocalist, composer, bandleader, and cultural ambassador, he kept the sound of African rumba, kidandali, and jazz alive for generation after generation. When others left the stage, Papa Moi remained steady, dignified, and devoted.

To those who knew him personally, he was something rarer still: a good friend who respected everyone. In an industry often marked by rivalry and ego, Moses Matovu moved with quiet grace. He treated the young musician the same way he treated the minister, the stagehand the same way he treated the star. That humility and respect were not performances; they were simply who he was.

His death this morning of 24 September 2026, after a brutal and senseless attack in Kibuli, has left a wound that feels too deep for words. At 77 years of age, after a lifetime of service to music and to this country, he should have been allowed to leave this world in peace, surrounded by the songs he loved and the people who loved him. Instead, we are left with grief, anger, and the aching question of why.

Yet even in this darkness, his legacy refuses to be extinguished. I believe that every time an Ugandan picks up a saxophone or steps onto a stage with pride in our own musical heritage, Papa Moi lives on. The melodies he shaped, the standards he set, and the example of quiet dignity he offered will outlast the violence that took him.

To his family, to the remaining members of Afrigo Band, to every musician who ever shared a stage with him, and to the countless fans whose lives were brightened by his music: may you find strength in the love he left behind. May the nation he enriched never forget the man who gave us so much of its soundtrack.

Rest in power, Papa Moi.
The music continues, but it will never sound quite the same without you.
A sad day for Uganda.
A sad day for the entertainment industry.
An incomprehensible loss.
Papa with all the love and loss, SLEEP in eternal peace.
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un

[THE Blaze @blazey_blaze]

You gotta give it to @kanyindo and @rudende for the Moses Matovu tribute. Prep was thrown out the window and they got right into it. They have even played something from Afrigo’s Teri Mubi album that was coincidentally released this month in 2019. Good radio.

[Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga @rkabushenga]

What a terrible terrible loss. Very very sad. RIP Moses Matovu. You defined the Ugandan music sound, you kept Afrigo Band going forever & you taught us life’s lessons of consistency, focus, staying power & what creativity can achieve.

[Mukula @mukulaa]

A NATIONAL TRIBUTE TO MOSES MATOVU ( RIP) A MAESTRO HAS FALLEN

Uganda has lost not merely a musician, but a national cultural treasure.

It is with profound grief and a deeply wounded heart that I mourn the passing of Moses Matovu (RIP) the legendary maestro, founding member and enduring pillar of the celebrated Afrigo Band. His death leaves an enormous void in Uganda’s music fraternity and in African culture, and in the hearts of generations who grew up listening, dancing and celebrating life to his extraordinary music.

As Patron of the Uganda musicians Association and more personally as his friend, I join his family, colleagues, fellow musicians, the Afrigo Band community and millions of admirers in Uganda, Africa and across the world in mourning a man whose contribution transcended music.

Moses Matovu belonged to that rare generation of artists whose work became part of the soundtrack of a nation. Through decades of extraordinary dedication, discipline and creativity, he helped build Afrigo Band into an institution. Governments changed, generations came and went, musical tastes evolved, but Afrigo endured. At the heart of that remarkable journey stood Moses Matovu composer, instrumentalist, performer, mentor and custodian of Uganda’s musical heritage.

His music carried our stories. It celebrated love, life and community. It crossed ethnic, linguistic, political and generational boundaries. In moments of celebration, Ugandans danced to his music; in moments of reflection, his melodies spoke to our hearts. That is the measure of a true national artist.

The circumstances surrounding his reported death are deeply disturbing. I call upon the Uganda Police Force and all responsible security agencies to conduct a swift, professional and thorough investigation, establish the facts surrounding his death and, if criminal responsibility is established, identify those responsible and bring them before the courts of law. Justice must be pursued firmly, transparently and in accordance with the law.

At this hour of national sorrow, I also make a humble appeal to the Government of Uganda, the Ministry responsible for Culture, the music fraternity and all Ugandans: Moses Matovu deserves a dignified national farewell befitting the magnitude of his contribution to our country.

We must honour our cultural heroes not only when they entertain us, but also when the final curtain falls.

Let Uganda stand together and celebrate the life of a man who gave us decades of music, joy, identity and cultural pride. Let younger musicians study his discipline, longevity and devotion to his craft. And let his passing remind us that artists are custodians of a nation’s memory and deserve recognition as builders of our national heritage.

To his family, the entire Afrigo Band family, fellow musicians, friends and admirers, I extend my deepest condolences. May Almighty God comfort you, strengthen you spiritually and carry you through this extraordinarily painful moment.

Moses Matovu ( RIP) may have left the stage, but the music will not stop. The instruments may fall silent today, but the melodies he gave Uganda will echo through generations yet unborn.

Farewell, Maestro.
Farewell, our friend.
Farewell, son of Uganda and giant of African music.

May the Almighty God receive his soul and grant him eternal rest.

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un

Rest in eternal peace, Moses Matovu. Your music lives on.

CAPT. MIKE MUKULA
Patron, Uganda Musicians Association.

[Ddumba Peter @DdumbaPeter]

Kitalo nnyo!

[Hajji Hassan Badru Zziwa @BadruZziwa]

Just in
Moses Matovu of Afrigo Band has been killed this morning. Inna Lillah wa inna Lillah rajoon.

[Denis Jjuuko @Denis_Jjuuko]

Well, because she is the Lubuga of Kabaka Mutebi II, the reigning monarch. Once you are the Lubuga of the reigning Kabaka, you become Nnaalinya Lubuga. But if a princess is the heiress of a previous Lubuga (co-heir of a demised king), she just becomes Nnaalinya. Like the successor of Mwanga II or Muteesa I’s Lubuga is just Nnaalinya. And therefore not addressed as Nnaalinya Lubuga.

The title of Nnaalinya is fairly recent, created by Muteesa I. His Lubuga was always late and she would arrive and say… bannange nnaalinya mu mmere, banange nnaalinya wa… so Muteesa I started referring to her as Nnaalinya… and it became a title for every Lubuga and the princesses who become heiresses of the Lubugas but for the reigning Lubuga, the title of Nnaalinya is added hence Nnaalinya Lubuga Agnes Nnabaloga. Clear?