On a late Thursday afternoon, I find several youth and young children taking part in free breakdance classes under the auspices of Imagination Circle Limited at the Economic and Community Development Complex in Makindye Division’s Namuwongo slum. I also learn that the sessions are triweekly. Sylvia Nabukenya, a 23-year-old dance coach, is taking the youngsters through various dance steps as music from a loudspeaker on one of the dance floors blares.

“I was teaching them the basic movements of breakdance. The six steps of breakdancing: one step, two step, three step, four step, five step, and six step. And the elements of breakdance, power moves, freeze, top locks and footwork,” Ms Nabukenya reveals after the day’s classes end.  Abduraheman Edema, 10, tells me why the lure of breakdancing is strong.

The Primary Four pupil at Ai-Maan Nursery and Primary School in Namuwongo says: “I like breakdancing. I come here every day after school to learn, and be fit.”  And star attractions are not in scant supply.

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*Written by Bamuturaki Musinguzi