[1] The festival is a celebration of world music, games, cultural dances, stories, poems, and so on.
Art pieces from the Repainting Uganda project are also displayed and sold during the festival.
[2] The festival invites many different world music stars from across Africa and sometimes from Asia, Europe, and America.
[3][4] Milege started the festival in 2010, moving across Uganda, but has since 2014 relocated it to the Botanical Gardens in Entebbe.
Preparation for the festival starts as early as January.