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No festivals to mark 'dull' Utamaduni day

Music artist Otile Brown entertains revellers during Jamaican Reggae artist Tarrus Riley performance at Koroga Festival in Naivasha on June 26, 2022. [Courtesy, Standard]

Throngs of people stretched out as far as the eye could see. That was the situation at this year's DSTV Delicious International Food and Music Festival in South Africa.

When it was announced that the festival would be returning after a two-year hiatus that had been occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic, tickets for the Saturday event, with Nigerian artiste Burna Boy as the headliner, sold out within six weeks.

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