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Telling our Stories – A review of Invisible: Stories from Kenya’s Queer Community

[19 May 2014 | Comments Off | ]

Telling our Stories – A review of Invisible: Stories from Kenya’s Queer Community

By: Kampire Bahana

This petite and easy read is a testament to the importance of telling our own stories. We usually talk about this in reference to being African; outsiders have been telling our stories since before the days of Heart of Darkness, a book published more than a hundred years ago that continues to define the continent in the minds of many. Today we have movie stars like George Clooney, Angelina Jolie and Ben Affleck, testifying in front of American […]

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Check Your Sex At the Door, Please!

[5 May 2014 | Comments Off | ]

Check Your Sex At the Door, Please!

Sexual politics will be used to review the recently concluded Makerere University and Norwegian College of Dance collaborative performance at the National Theatre Kampala from 5-6 April 2014.

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Mira Nair and the making of Queen of Katwe
By Kalungi Kabuye Before Queen of Katwe, Mira Nair was probably better known as the director of the 1988 film Salaam Bombay, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In Uganda we first knew her for Mississippi Masala (1991), a story of an Indian girl whose family had to leave […]
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Katwe, a genuine pleasure
By Annette Sebba These and many more memories have been triggered by the 2016 Uganda movie, Queen of Katwe. I agree with Olly Richards of the Sunday Times, United Kingdom, that even with a clearly signposted ending, the movie still manages to offer surprises. Nair delights in Uganda, painting a country of many social contrasts […]
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Re-reading the Warps and Wefts in Trowell’s Mother and Child Print: Debates and Contests
Margaret Trowell has been called the ‘mother of contemporary art in Uganda and a feminist’ (Tumusiime 2012). This is because in the mid-1930s she introduced the teaching of contemporary art at Makerere University and wrote widely on issues concerning family, women and children. On the other hand, she also created art though only few of […]
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Editorial: Returning to the archive: It is still rich, accessible and usable!
This issue demonstrates that the available archive of the history of Uganda’s visual culture is still rich, accessible and usable. However, it could shape a conversation on the country’s creative discourse if (and only if) we looked at it again and looked at it hard enough. Dr. Angello Kakande gives an overview of the articles […]
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Bayimba turning 10yrs, with a bit of pressure on determining what next!
by Faisal KIWEWA Fig 1. Joel Sebunjo and Sundiata This 2017, Bayimba is making 10 years of working and investing in the arts and culture in Uganda. This is really a great moment for all of us at the organisation and a bit of pressure on determining what more we have to achieve. Whilst implementing […]
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The Art of Appropriation: The Ready-made through the Eyes of Matt Kayem
Visual artist Matt Kayem explores the concept of found object art and appropriation in art and talke about his own installation at the Kampala Art Biennale. It makes everything look easy but it requires an eye for aesthetics, and a creative mind to choose an item to speak volumes. The process of selection is a […]
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