Uganda's Mr. Lover-Lover!

Posted to the web 7 August 2008 Kisakye Frank A decade after Shaggy's maiden Ugandan concert in January 1998 at the Nile gardens - now Serena hotel - Mr. Bombastic will be back for the record fourth time in ten years on August 9 at Lugogo Cricket Oval. He will be officiating at the Pilsner Passa Passa dance hall fest. The dancehall and reggae king seems to love Uganda so much, he will jet in as early as August 5. Born Orville Richard Burrell in Kingston Jamaica in 1968, 18-year-old Shaggy joined his mother in Brooklyn - New York. Shaggy's rise to become one of dancehall's commercially potent artistes has been no easy road. Raised single handedly by his mother, Shaggy lived a ghetto child's life. He is your typical bad boy gone good. "It was a fad to go to school with guns, get into fights and sell drugs. That was a regular... [read full story]