Nyege Nyege: sold-out crowd at 'immoral' Ugandan music festival

Image source, AFP because of "immorality".

Critics, including several MPs and the speaker of parliament, have described it as a "breeding ground for sexual immorality" and "homosexuality".

But some say the threat boosted ticket sales for the electronic music festival.

"The excitement is in the roof," Zawedde Patricia Zoe told the BBC.< /p>

"It's just people getting together and having fun with each other," she said from the festival, which takes place on the scenic Itanda Falls on the banks of the Nile.

It has a "wild party feeling in the jungle g", she said, adding that it was a great relief to go to this kind of festival after two years of confinement.

She believed that the controversy was due to the generational gap between the young people who attend the festival and Ugandan politicians, who are generally older .

However, not all Ugandan politicians were opposed to the festival - Deputy Prime Minister Rebecca Kadaga was filmed dancing there.