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Start – A Journal of Arts and Culture in East Africa

• Transmission at the Kampala Biennale
  “There is no contemporary art in Uganda”, remarked independent curator Simon Njami two years ago when he visited Uganda. The outrageous remark stirred up a storm on the Kampala art scene which the perpetrator has ignited at this year’s Kampala Biennale. Seemingly to assert his earlier claim, Njami, the curator of the third edition of […]
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• Exhibition Making in Enugu and Nsukka, Nigeria: 1960s-1990s
  Relying essentially on archival and library research, this article examines the (hi)story of exhibition making in Enugu and Nsukka (the political and educational capitals of Nigeria’s eastern region, respectively), beginning from the immediate postcolonial epoch of the 1960s, through the post-war period of the 1970s to the 1980s-1990s, historical periods when Nigerian artists constructed and […]
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• From Archival Articles to Future Festivals – Editorial June
  With a season of arts and music festivals drawing near, this issue of Start Journal invites the Kampala arts community not only to look ahead to the opportunities of future festivals but to look back on where art in Kampala has come from, and how the last six years, the last two decades, even the […]
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• Revitalising Ugandan Bark-Cloth – Concerns of the regime artist
  By Fred Mutebi Blind Leading Blind, Leaders and followers – the current state of affairs in our global community. I consider myself an artist of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) regime, which ousted former governments that were blamed for political turmoil that restricted Ugandan artists from optimal practice at home in the 70s and 80s. During […]
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• Ronex: “Can we think of a future without a documented or archived past?”
  Ronex reflects on his own experience and asks himself: "As Ugandans, if we are still struggling with archiving and access of certain information, what role can each player in the Kampala art world play to avert the situation?" The post Ronex: “Can we think of a future without a documented or archived past?” appeared first […]
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• Poetry of Memory is Voice, Not Words
  By Kagayi Ngobi Kagayi Ngobi (image from the authors facebook page) When the late Joseph Walugembe was still the Director of the Uganda National Theatre, he once explained to my friends and I of the Lantern Meet of Poets how our poetry was different from that of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. I recall him […]
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