Occurring the first week of August for the past 12 years, the Bayimba International Festival of the Arts is a showcase for talents all across Africa. It features artists and performers across numerous disciplines including music, dance, poetry, storytelling, acrobatics, theater, film, and visual arts. These up and coming talents are provided a platform to perform and gain recognition from. Located off the shores of Lake Victoria on Lunkulu Island, this destination festival is Uganda's number one festival. Due to the span of the festival, attendees are allowed to camp on site, although day passes are also available (g3).

The Nile River Festival is "Africa's largest and longest running whitewater festival" with competitions attracting a diverse range from global competitors to people riding whimsical rafts and floats. Divided into several competitions, the primary competition of the NRE, a kayak race down the Nile serves as a platform for choosing the Ugandan team for the World Championship each year. While all are welcome to compete in this particular event, the highest ranking Ugandan advances to Worlds. The four day competition draws some of the best athletes from around the world, all competing for the champion title (g32).

B-Global Indigenous Hip Hop Gathering is an organization that's "vision is to empower and educate the youth to lay foundations upon which their communities can grow, build and be transformed through Hip Hop" (g4). It features a diversity of performances over the course of six days, as well as workshops facilitated by Ugandan Hip Hop icons, DJ Scratching demonstrations, B- Boy dance battles, a Graffiti display, Motivational speakers, and a Hip Hop Fashion Show (g20).

The above artist, Babaluku, while not a competitor of the event has hosted it several times. The Ugandan rapper does what manner artists don't dare to do: rap in Lugandan, or what is known as "Luga-Flow." He espouses the same ideals as B-Global, pushes the craft to its limits, and takes extreme pride in his culture by rapping in his native tongue. Babaluku is the example that B-Global aims to set (v1).

The Nile Gold Jazz Festival. created by TShaka 'TSbR' Mayanja and Elijah Kitaka, began in 2008 under the name of "The Sizzling Jazz Safari." The program aims to promote Jazz n East and Central Africa, first and foremost, and then to expand outwards. In attempting to build sponsorship, the event often takes on the name of the primary sponsor and relocates to various African countries. The Jazz Safari also works in conjunction with various music schools to facilitate Jazz studies in East Africa (g21).