Bugembe's absence makes transformation concert to flop

By Zack Tiberindwa, :: 27-09-2011

When a musician of Wilson Bugembe’s caliber promises to grace a concert anywhere in this country, all you expect is a full house of expectant Christian and non Christian enthusiasts waiting in eager anticipation of his performance.
     Thus on Friday 16th September, it was no surprise that Nkoyoyo Hall was packed to capacity as students droved the hall to attend the highly publicised Transformation Conference.
     The conference came with a promise to have Wilson Bugembe as a guest performer, and obviously quite a huge chunk of the crowd that made it to Nkoyoyo should have come there just to have a free snippet of one of Uganda’s most popular gospel musicians. Unfortunately they were terribly disappointed when the Lengera Embaata singer never made it.
      The conference that started at 7:30pm was organised by the Touched to Touch Ministry in conjunction with the main Uganda Christian Fellowship. But by 8:30 when I signed in for the show, I could hardly find a place where I could stand or sit and clearly observe the proceedings at the show. By then, the students were already tuned for the man and every second that passed seemed like a century as they just could not wait for the singer who has become a household name in Uganda.
    The clock did its job as it ticked and chimed, laboriously though, as if to mock those that had come to the conference just to watch Bugembe other than listen to the message.
   No wonder that when the preacher of the day stood up to speak at around 9:30pm, he spent most of the time condemning some of those students for coming for the conference just to watch Bugembe “who is a man like us instead of coming to hear from God”
    But then that was the last thing that students wanted to hear. By then you would read it on some of their facial expressions that Bugembe was the person that they wanted to see. True they needed to hear from God but as long as the message came packaged in a Bugembe performance on the Nkoyoyo stage, they would take in all else.
     By 10:30pm the conference that was supposed to end at 10:00pm had not ended just because organisers kept hoping that may the popular gospel artiste would show up at the eleventh hour to help
the organizers save face. He never did and that meant that the show that had promised a great deal flopped on that note.
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