Mariam Ndagire

"The radio started playing songs we sang for plays, and somehow people kept requesting them. When CBS started Enkuka, we were curated as performers; generally, one thing led to the other, and people started asking for more songs."

"At the time, theatre was very popular; the experience was always big at shows; theatre was a thing."

"I could say I accidentally became a recording artiste."

"There was a time I attended a Bakayimbira [show] and the auditorium was flat; since I was short, I couldn’t see anything. I had to stand on a bench."

"I think through the play, they managed to notice that they were being a burden. That’s how much theatre resonated with the people then,"

"We were doing things that were close to people’s hearts and things that they could relate to easily; we knew that theatre is about society and impacting on it to change, so we used to do issues about family so that people could feel like they were watching themselves and would change."