Trumpeter and DJ Florence Lugemwa has built a successful career in music, and aims to motivate her band of school pupils from Uganda’s capital city to do the same
- Words and photographs by Frank L’Opez
As day breaks over the heads of the clubbers on a Kampala rooftop, arms are raised in unison as they dance on to the bass-heavy tracks. Florence Lugemwa has only been Dj-ing for a few weeks but had the party going until after sunrise.
By lunchtime, Lugemwa is still bright-eyed as she clambers down from a truck in Ggaba, one of Kampala’s most deprived communities, with the battered trombones, trumpets and drums to hand out to an eager crowd of children.
Florence Lugemwa, surrounded by members of Homeland brass band. The children don’t have to audition, but must show commitment
