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'Dull' Utamaduni with no festivals to mark the day

A man draped in the Kenyan flag along Ngong Road. [Denish Ochieng, 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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