{"id":1951,"date":"2014-10-22T08:07:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T07:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2016-07-19T08:05:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T08:05:37","slug":"oktoberfest-in-bujumbura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/oktoberfest-in-bujumbura\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Oktoberfest\u2019 in Bujumbura"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday 10 October 2014 Burundian brewer Brarudi organized the Amstel Beer Fest. Kibido, Kitoko and other Burundian stars performed.-<\/strong>By J.Berchmans Siboniyo<\/em><\/p>\n

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Excited people when Brarudiwas promoting Amstel \u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n

The German Oktoberfest is taking over the world. The festival originates in M\u00fcnchen, Germany. It is the largest beer festival in the world and lasts about two weeks. It\u2019s popularity has inspired others worldwide to organize similar events. \u201cSimply said it is fantastic\u201d, says Blaise, a visitor at the event. \u201cEverything is alright\u201d, agrees Uhr, a German who attended the event. \u201cWell organized, in a good place where security is warranted. It is really exciting.\u201d \u201cBrarudi is the leader of all companies operating here in Burundi. No other company thinks about promoting Burundian musicians like Brarudi. If I bought a car for my mother, it is because of Brarudi\u201d, says Big Furiouz, a Burundian star who thanks part of his popularity to the brewer. \u201cI liked the promotion 100%Brarudi unites Burundians. Everyone is happy, their faces show it\u201d, says Kitoko, a Rwandan popstar who performed during the event. \u201cWe thank Brarudi very much for bringing us our beloved stars like Kidumu\u201d, says Rally Joe, the first Burundian to win the Brarudi Primusic Prize. \u201cMany Burundians have seen stars like Kitoko on the screen. It is because of Brarudi that they can now touch their hands.\u201d He adds that he is happy there were many attendants. Kibido, a pop star known throughout the East African region, mentions thatBrarudi is also contributing to peacekeeping. \u201cBurundians can sit together around a glass of beer dancing and exchanging ideas without political or ethnical distinction.\u201d He himself took the occasion to deliver an important message to Burundians in this period of preparation for the election process. \u201cBurundi means more than any man or any woman in it, more than anything in it. No one feels happy when he is called a refugee, orphan, widow or widower. Some of us carried these names. We don\u2019t want to bear them again\u201d, he states. Alexandra Sindahera, the Secretary General of Brarudi reveals that all the tickets were sold and more people wanted to enter.This was the second edition of the Amstel Beer Fest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday 10 October 2014 Burundian brewer Brarudi organized the Amstel Beer Fest. Kibido, Kitoko and other Burundian stars performed.-By J.Berchmans Siboniyo The German Oktoberfest is taking over the world. The festival originates in M\u00fcnchen, Germany. It is the largest beer festival in the world and lasts about two weeks. It\u2019s popularity has inspired others […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[1160,464],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2874,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/2874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}