A cultural troupe is a group of dancers who perform cultural/traditional dance and music as entertainment to those who hire them. These troupes mostly in Kampala have specialized in performing ethnic dances and music from within Uganda however some go the extra mile to perform dances from Rwanda and other nearby countries. Some of the cultural dances performed by cultural troupes are bakisimba, nankasa, muwogola, kadodi, runyege, and ntogolo, among others. Culture can be termed as the daily life of a human being that covers the beliefs, customs, social behavior, and norms of a given group of people. Anything to be termed as cultural must be accepted by society termed as culture. A troupe is a group of performers who dance, act or sing at different places. The study was community-based research aimed at fully bringing out the different reasons why performing arts students choose to join and work with cultural troupes that are based in the communities that surround Makerere University but in this case, we shall focus more on Afrique arts troupe. The study also aimed to search for how cultural troupes can make an impact on the talents of their members, putting in mind that we focused on students of the performing arts department of Makerere University.

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