DAR ES SALAAM, May 31 -- IT was a cool Saturday night at a hotel in  Kampala city when an undisclosed live band was heard playing Baruti of Orchestra Veve to perfection, and that tune added something to the beauty of the Ugandan capitals night in the mid-2020s.

It was not known exactly where the band was playing, but its clarity in volume and audience applauds convinced the writer that it was not far from the dead centre of the seven-hill city.

Also heard clearly was a distinctive honky tonk sound similar to the Kiamwangana Mateta Verkyss tenor saxophone in its sebene;  and of course, the Lambion-like Gibson guitar tone in the fourth octave almost made it look like a throwback to the real days of the Orchestra Veve in that you...