Comments for Start - A Journal of Arts and Culture in East Africa http://startjournal.org Wed, 22 May 2013 10:13:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Comment on The Ernst May Exhibition at the Uganda Museum by Dominic Muwanguzi http://startjournal.org/2013/04/the-ernst-may-exhibition-at-the-uganda-museum/#comment-71922 Dominic Muwanguzi Wed, 22 May 2013 10:13:14 +0000 http://startjournal.org/?p=6357#comment-71922 A good article that coincides with the efforts by the KCCA to revamp the city landscape. I hope it the government does not succumb to the pressures of the citizenry to not develop Kampala. Of course with our Kampala you can not think of developement without stepping on a few people's heads. That hurts, but its the only way forward. A good article that coincides with the efforts by the KCCA to revamp the city landscape. I hope it the government does not succumb to the pressures of the citizenry to not develop Kampala.
Of course with our Kampala you can not think of developement without stepping on a few people’s heads. That hurts, but its the only way forward.

]]> Comment on Free Expression by Mzili: Desperate Art by Dominic Muwanguzi http://startjournal.org/2013/05/free-expression-by-mzili-desperate-art/#comment-71732 Dominic Muwanguzi Wed, 15 May 2013 10:34:38 +0000 http://startjournal.org/?p=6422#comment-71732 This is a very interesting article Henry. It touches on issues that i have always tried to evoke in my writing as an art Journalist and now critic/ activist. I strongly agree your endorsement of Ndiaye's opinion that African must be civilized to start appreciating what is truely theirs. My heart always sinks when i think of the amount of art that has been shipped to the west in the last century and now. I attended an exhibition which was celebrating the old and present of Ugandan art and loo, what was exhibited from the past was a handful of poorly kept ( coated with dust) from the archives in Makerere! More sadly is the incident at the State House in Entebbe where paintings bought during the Obote regime where literally trashed during the renovation that preceded the Chogm meet in Kampala in 2007! The idea of conservation of African art seems to tally with the idea of documentation. This is very crucial and this is the more reason Startjournal will always be one of the most brilliant ideas to come out from a group of Artists. We need more such creative initiatives. I will briefly comment on your idea of being misunderstood as an artist. Sometimes as artist we try so hard to be understood by our audience. if we are not, we are feel disappointed and ths dumpens pour spirit to create. I believe the Picassos, Leoardo de vinci of this world never obsessed about being understood or misunderstood. Their ambition was to put forward their philosophies about life, and that was it. Today Mzili's sole ambition should be to share his philosophies (its good that you are a dreamer) to his audience. The rest should be the worries of that audience.... This is a very interesting article Henry. It touches on issues that i have always tried to evoke in my writing as an art Journalist and now critic/ activist.
I strongly agree your endorsement of Ndiaye’s opinion that African must be civilized to start appreciating what is truely theirs. My heart always sinks when i think of the amount of art that has been shipped to the west in the last century and now.
I attended an exhibition which was celebrating the old and present of Ugandan art and loo, what was exhibited from the past was a handful of poorly kept ( coated with dust) from the archives in Makerere!
More sadly is the incident at the State House in Entebbe where paintings bought during the Obote regime where literally trashed during the renovation that preceded the Chogm meet in Kampala in 2007!
The idea of conservation of African art seems to tally with the idea of documentation. This is very crucial and this is the more reason Startjournal will always be one of the most brilliant ideas to come out from a group of Artists.
We need more such creative initiatives.
I will briefly comment on your idea of being misunderstood as an artist. Sometimes as artist we try so hard to be understood by our audience. if we are not, we are feel disappointed and ths dumpens pour spirit to create.
I believe the Picassos, Leoardo de vinci of this world never obsessed about being understood or misunderstood. Their ambition was to put forward their philosophies about life, and that was it.
Today Mzili’s sole ambition should be to share his philosophies (its good that you are a dreamer) to his audience. The rest should be the worries of that audience….

]]> Comment on Sketching a Civilisation: Graphic records of unfinished ideas by Rumanzi Canon http://startjournal.org/2013/04/sketching-a-civilisation-graphic-records-of-unfinished-ideas/#comment-71532 Rumanzi Canon Mon, 06 May 2013 20:48:31 +0000 http://startjournal.org/?p=6297#comment-71532 When i talked to Ishta Nandi (The writer of the above article) at Makerere Art Gallery, i did not know she felt like laughing because of me. When i drew the drawings,I encoded in what my conviction was to show in a drawing. Time has passed, My systems ( from nervous to respiratory to digestive to circulatory to lymphatic to excretion and etcetra) have been working ever since, So imagine all the changes!! But when i see the drawings, i am taken back momentarily to those times when my existence used to summarize me express myself in those drawings ... I kinda loved death, and the death of cows and goats and flowers and pictures and more, i ate it, That of people, i got only coffins, @ Mulago Mortuary, the ethics would not let them let me gen in and do my thing(s) ... And time passed ... and i unwound, little by little, At Murambi Genocide memorial, i was surprised what questions people can ask, like "How was your tour?" ... more time passed and slowly love and greed for life crept up back into me, and i hated History In Progress Uganda that i had started with Andrea Stultiens who i was getting reverse love for ever since she said she loved me and it would hit critical levels of the mirror Y-axis when she would say it again, again, again, at times as weird as "how was your tour?" So August 2011 i wound up letting her keep doing History In Progress Uganda on her own and get more willing people if she wanted ... All that time i am Drawing more and more, but love and greed are creeping up and i am seeing alternative lives as those at @rt Punch studio, More changes happen from Jan-March 2013 and this exhibition was like consummation, No more debts involving HIPUganda or Andrea Stultiens or Drawings from the time when i liked truth more than life ... So Ishta Nandi talks of shapes and colors but she missed the word i wished she had used, I chose Decoration, I chose possibility of action, I chose myself and those that populate my head in kindness, I chose Love, I chose being right or wrong. All chosen over being true. So, I continue to Photograph and practice arts as a trader doing a trade,Rocca gutteridge, Jantien Zuurbier have bought my work. I photograph for those who need photos, Make videos for those who want moving images, and i keep designing nice things or things i feel good designing. The drawings and the photos from then, I wouldn't be like i am had i not drawn them or seen the things i photographed parts of. I am still alive and wanting to keep it so, Therefore the slate never gets less stainy through the stay. No thanks for seeing the drawings or the Photos. It does not benefit me at all since you are not paying me for it or even telling me what you think. Thanks to Ishta Nandi since she says some of it. But, big thanks Katrin Peters Klaphake who i worked with as we put them up and probably will work with again as i take em down. Thanks to Timothy Erau, Dani Musumba, Danze Dejahn, Arthur Kisitu, Wasswa Donald Agustine, Helen Nabukenya, Sheila Black. Ha, :) Now 'lets roll the next record' FIRE! Pwa! When i talked to Ishta Nandi (The writer of the above article) at Makerere Art Gallery, i did not know she felt like laughing because of me.

When i drew the drawings,I encoded in what my conviction was to show in a drawing. Time has passed, My systems ( from nervous to respiratory to digestive to circulatory to lymphatic to excretion and etcetra) have been working ever since, So imagine all the changes!!

But when i see the drawings, i am taken back momentarily to those times when my existence used to summarize me express myself in those drawings … I kinda loved death, and the death of cows and goats and flowers and pictures and more, i ate it, That of people, i got only coffins, @ Mulago Mortuary, the ethics would not let them let me gen in and do my thing(s) … And time passed … and i unwound, little by little, At Murambi Genocide memorial, i was surprised what questions people can ask, like “How was your tour?” … more time passed and slowly love and greed for life crept up back into me, and i hated History In Progress Uganda that i had started with Andrea Stultiens who i was getting reverse love for ever since she said she loved me and it would hit critical levels of the mirror Y-axis when she would say it again, again, again, at times as weird as “how was your tour?” So August 2011 i wound up letting her keep doing History In Progress Uganda on her own and get more willing people if she wanted … All that time i am Drawing more and more, but love and greed are creeping up and i am seeing alternative lives as those at @rt Punch studio, More changes happen from Jan-March 2013 and this exhibition was like consummation, No more debts involving HIPUganda or Andrea Stultiens or Drawings from the time when i liked truth more than life … So Ishta Nandi talks of shapes and colors but she missed the word i wished she had used, I chose Decoration, I chose possibility of action, I chose myself and those that populate my head in kindness, I chose Love, I chose being right or wrong. All chosen over being true. So, I continue to Photograph and practice arts as a trader doing a trade,Rocca gutteridge, Jantien Zuurbier have bought my work. I photograph for those who need photos, Make videos for those who want moving images, and i keep designing nice things or things i feel good designing. The drawings and the photos from then, I wouldn’t be like i am had i not drawn them or seen the things i photographed parts of.
I am still alive and wanting to keep it so, Therefore the slate never gets less stainy through the stay.

No thanks for seeing the drawings or the Photos. It does not benefit me at all since you are not paying me for it or even telling me what you think.
Thanks to Ishta Nandi since she says some of it.

But, big thanks Katrin Peters Klaphake who i worked with as we put them up and probably will work with again as i take em down.

Thanks to Timothy Erau, Dani Musumba, Danze Dejahn, Arthur Kisitu, Wasswa Donald Agustine, Helen Nabukenya, Sheila Black.

Ha, :) Now ‘lets roll the next record’ FIRE! Pwa!

]]> Comment on Sketching a Civilisation: Graphic records of unfinished ideas by RUMANZI CANON http://startjournal.org/2013/04/sketching-a-civilisation-graphic-records-of-unfinished-ideas/#comment-71531 RUMANZI CANON Mon, 06 May 2013 20:09:04 +0000 http://startjournal.org/?p=6297#comment-71531 To see more of the drawings, Here, https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.345201692158236.93115.185401028138304&type=3 To see more of the 'shifting photos' and the last to be eaten of livestock and the runners of that end of the industry, Here, https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.512382818773455.125086.185401028138304&type=3 To see what Rumanzi Canon (Me) is like, Here, https://www.facebook.com/irisvisual To see Rumanzi Canon's Graphic Designs up to March 2013, Here, http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxyrot/ KEEP RUNNING. NO HUGSNO KISSES, ONLY WISHES. Yours maybe Sincerely; Rumanzi Canon. To see more of the drawings, Here,

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.345201692158236.93115.185401028138304&type=3

To see more of the ‘shifting photos’ and the last to be eaten of livestock and the runners of that end of the industry, Here,

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.512382818773455.125086.185401028138304&type=3

To see what Rumanzi Canon (Me) is like, Here,

https://www.facebook.com/irisvisual

To see Rumanzi Canon’s Graphic Designs up to March 2013, Here,

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxyrot/

KEEP RUNNING.
NO HUGSNO KISSES, ONLY WISHES.

Yours maybe Sincerely;
Rumanzi Canon.

]]> Comment on On Cultural Destiny: The Klaus Wachsmann Music Archive by Back to Uganda! | Peter Hoesing http://startjournal.org/2013/01/on-cultural-destiny-wachsmann-archive/#comment-71483 Back to Uganda! | Peter Hoesing Fri, 03 May 2013 19:10:10 +0000 http://startjournal.org/?p=5897#comment-71483 [...] be working with Dr. Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza, the founding curator of the Makerere University Klaus Wachsmann World Music Archive and the director of that university’s ethnomusicology program, to reach out to the [...] [...] be working with Dr. Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza, the founding curator of the Makerere University Klaus Wachsmann World Music Archive and the director of that university’s ethnomusicology program, to reach out to the [...]

]]> Comment on Free Expression by Mzili: For the love of a nation by Teddy Nabisenke http://startjournal.org/2013/03/free-expression-by-mzili-for-the-love-of-a-nation/#comment-71429 Teddy Nabisenke Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:16:37 +0000 http://startjournal.org/?p=6052#comment-71429 'u beat me up for speaking my Language/mother tongue' and then u expect me to be Patriotic!!....total nightmare..............its Us to discover ourselves, no one will discover Us. ‘u beat me up for speaking my Language/mother tongue’ and then u expect me to be Patriotic!!….total nightmare…………..its Us to discover ourselves, no one will discover Us.

]]> Comment on Producing Culture on Twitter: Is it Ugandan? by Teddy Nabisenke http://startjournal.org/2013/03/producing-culture-on-twitter-is-it-ugandan/#comment-71428 Teddy Nabisenke Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:59:10 +0000 http://startjournal.org/?p=6160#comment-71428 mmmmh!!!Okulya na Balangira, tekikufuula Mulangira.....dressing up in a French style doesn't make u a French man...that's just evolution of Technology.....from a drum beat to a phone call, etc...while the appreciation of these advancements is also another subject to discuss, whether they are utilized positively or negatively. e.g, but one should know 'speaking English,French, German etc...doesn't change my originally/roots that am a 'Ugandan'...........its just a way of having the ability to communicate/or simplifying communication/being able to deliver my message to many......so 'social network' doesn't exclude me from the list of Ugandans. mmmmh!!!Okulya na Balangira, tekikufuula Mulangira…..dressing up in a French style doesn’t make u a French man…that’s just evolution of Technology…..from a drum beat to a phone call, etc…while the appreciation of these advancements is also another subject to discuss, whether they are utilized positively or negatively. e.g, but one should know ‘speaking English,French, German etc…doesn’t change my originally/roots that am a ‘Ugandan’………..its just a way of having the ability to communicate/or simplifying communication/being able to deliver my message to many……so ‘social network’ doesn’t exclude me from the list of Ugandans.

]]> Comment on A Ugandan MC’s intimate keyboard hip-hop by [Commentary] A Ugandan MC’s intimate keyboard Hip-Hop | BAKWA MAGAZINE http://startjournal.org/2013/03/a-ugandan-mcs-intimate-keyboard-hip-hop/#comment-71383 [Commentary] A Ugandan MC’s intimate keyboard Hip-Hop | BAKWA MAGAZINE Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:23:49 +0000 http://startjournal.org/?p=6042#comment-71383 [...] Originally published in Start [...] [...] Originally published in Start [...]

]]> Comment on Sketching a Civilisation: Graphic records of unfinished ideas by victoria malcolm http://startjournal.org/2013/04/sketching-a-civilisation-graphic-records-of-unfinished-ideas/#comment-71367 victoria malcolm Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:23:39 +0000 http://startjournal.org/?p=6297#comment-71367 thank you-interesting reading and insight into interpretations of photography in Makerere. I have made paintings about the use of photography in South Africa over several generations, based on found and donated images connected with my family background, so although I have seldom shown my own photos I'm always looking at others.I recently bought a copy of a photograph entitled 'Studying the photographer's camera during a gaming trip at Amboseli, Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika,1951', published by the now defunct www.empiremuseum.co.uk(full name British Empire & Commonwealth Museum). As you might imagine, it shows two young men in traditional clothing examining a big Graflex portable camera. Like the young men, the photographer is unknown. It's a monochrome print, sort of dark brown rather than sepia. I bought it (one of several copies)immediately, from a Boy Scouts charity shop in Bristol for 50p. It seemed to encompass many modern histories....colonialism, the arrival of photography as the modern medium and its deployment in Africa first by the colonials from Europe but immediately also by African photographers; and the subsequent related history of the short-lived museum in Bristol, one Britain's oldest African colonised cities (now home to my daughters).To be continued! thank you-interesting reading and insight into interpretations of photography in Makerere.
I have made paintings about the use of photography in South Africa over several generations, based on found and donated images connected with my family background, so although I have seldom shown my own photos I’m always looking at others.I recently bought a copy of a photograph entitled ‘Studying the photographer’s camera during a gaming trip at Amboseli, Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika,1951′, published by the now defunct http://www.empiremuseum.co.uk(full name British Empire & Commonwealth Museum).
As you might imagine, it shows two young men in traditional clothing examining a big Graflex portable camera. Like the young men, the photographer is unknown. It’s a monochrome print, sort of dark brown rather than sepia. I bought it (one of several copies)immediately, from a Boy Scouts charity shop in Bristol for 50p.
It seemed to encompass many modern histories….colonialism, the arrival of photography as the modern medium and its deployment in Africa first by the colonials from Europe but immediately also by African photographers; and the subsequent related history of the short-lived museum in Bristol, one Britain’s oldest African colonised cities (now home to my daughters).To be continued!

]]> Comment on WAZO 9: Arts Education — Lovely or Essential? by Farida http://startjournal.org/2013/03/wazo-9-arts-education-lovely-or-essential/#comment-71265 Farida Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:43:55 +0000 http://startjournal.org/?p=6162#comment-71265 Good article Sophie. I Enjoyed reading it. Just a few corrections: 1))I am not a lawyer! Not sure why everyone thinks that. I also really simply think of myself as an aspiring writer but thanks for the vote of confidence in describing me as a poet:) 2)I appreciate your sentiments and perspective in raising the troubling comments on rape that arose out of a Femrite Readers/Writers Club meeting, but it's always complicated to raise the discussion of these issues out of the context in which they occurred. It often leads to further misunderstanding and defensiveness. Otherwise, great to see honest "conversations" on the arts continue... Good article Sophie. I Enjoyed reading it.

Just a few corrections:
1))I am not a lawyer! Not sure why everyone thinks that. I also really simply think of myself as an aspiring writer but thanks for the vote of confidence in describing me as a poet:)

2)I appreciate your sentiments and perspective in raising the troubling comments on rape that arose out of a Femrite Readers/Writers Club meeting, but it’s always complicated to raise the discussion of these issues out of the context in which they occurred. It often leads to further misunderstanding and defensiveness.

Otherwise, great to see honest “conversations” on the arts continue…

]]> Comment on Artachat: Divulging art in the public place by eddie b http://startjournal.org/2013/03/artachat-divulging-art-in-the-public-place/#comment-71223 eddie b Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:43:43 +0000 http://startjournal.org/?p=6154#comment-71223 very very interesting and resourceful. i will get in touch with all involved,. thanks for the innovation and ingenuity. eddie butindo very very interesting and resourceful. i will get in touch with all involved,. thanks for the innovation and ingenuity.

eddie butindo

]]> Comment on The influence of ancient drum practices on contemporary music by NABISENKE TEDDY http://startjournal.org/2013/03/the-influence-of-ancient-drum-practices-on-contemporary-music/#comment-71191 NABISENKE TEDDY Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:45:21 +0000 http://startjournal.org/?p=6046#comment-71191 Great Lutaaya. what i should say..........'Back to our roots', just like what Lucky Dube always emphasized. Great Lutaaya. what i should say……….’Back to our roots’, just like what Lucky Dube always emphasized.

]]> Comment on The harsh rebirth of professional theatre in Uganda by NABISENKE TEDDY http://startjournal.org/2013/03/the-harsh-rebirth-of-professional-theatre-in-uganda/#comment-71190 NABISENKE TEDDY Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:29:57 +0000 http://startjournal.org/?p=6057#comment-71190 Thanx KAIZA, its right and fitting, to note that Ugandan theatre has greatly declined and something has to be done. Thanx KAIZA, its right and fitting, to note that Ugandan theatre has greatly declined and something has to be done.

]]> Comment on The harsh rebirth of professional theatre in Uganda by NABISENKE TEDDY http://startjournal.org/2013/03/the-harsh-rebirth-of-professional-theatre-in-uganda/#comment-71189 NABISENKE TEDDY Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:15:56 +0000 http://startjournal.org/?p=6057#comment-71189 thanx Kaiza, for that concern. so should we say Ugandan serious theatre was also burried, in the same era when Bryon Kawadwa, Serumaga and many other dramatists and actors died???! what used to be BACK STAGE is now ON STAGE. Karaoke has taken up theatre in Ug. thanx Kaiza, for that concern. so should we say Ugandan serious theatre was also burried, in the same era when Bryon Kawadwa, Serumaga and many other dramatists and actors died???! what used to be BACK STAGE is now ON STAGE. Karaoke has taken up theatre in Ug.

]]> Comment on Producing Culture on Twitter: Is it Ugandan? by dominic muwanguzi http://startjournal.org/2013/03/producing-culture-on-twitter-is-it-ugandan/#comment-71173 dominic muwanguzi Wed, 03 Apr 2013 08:55:46 +0000 http://startjournal.org/?p=6160#comment-71173 Though i have not fully read the article, but from my discussion with the author of the article early this week, I feel he's so spot on. This has been my long interest: Artists appearing so western either by their dress code or accent (no offense here). Now they are using social media to reach out to their audience. But how many Ugandans can afford, let alone know how to use these social networks fully. A friend of mine and i were joking during the Easter holidays about all these so- called lads brandishing there smart phones. But they only use them to show off to their girlfriends and goggle soccer results all over the world- the unfortunate tide of sports betting!! Maurice and co, may opt for social media to reach out a new breed of audience, but unfortunately this type of audience does not appreciate what Book of Kirya is about. They will buy the album to show off as being part of Omulembe gwa Kirya...., but that's where it all stops. We need an audience that understands what they are buying and listening to. Though i have not fully read the article, but from my discussion with the author of the article early this week, I feel he’s so spot on.
This has been my long interest: Artists appearing so western either by their dress code or accent (no offense here). Now they are using social media to reach out to their audience. But how many Ugandans can afford, let alone know how to use these social networks fully.
A friend of mine and i were joking during the Easter holidays about all these so- called lads brandishing there smart phones. But they only use them to show off to their girlfriends and goggle soccer results all over the world- the unfortunate tide of sports betting!!
Maurice and co, may opt for social media to reach out a new breed of audience, but unfortunately this type of audience does not appreciate what Book of Kirya is about. They will buy the album to show off as being part of Omulembe gwa Kirya…., but that’s where it all stops.
We need an audience that understands what they are buying and listening to.

]]> Comment on St. Nelly-sade: Luga-flo lyricist, emcee, poet and thinker by Ugly Emcee http://startjournal.org/2013/03/st-nelly-sade-luga-flo-lyricist-emcee-poet-and-thinker/#comment-71170 Ugly Emcee Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:47:01 +0000 http://startjournal.org/?p=6156#comment-71170 Mo fire yes!!! and thanks so much for dropping out this killer album with so much fire!!! Got ma copy already and one for the Bonfire Uganda Family. Your lyrical content and story telling here is so rich with so much metaphors it honestly reminds me of all the days when our ancestors would pass on the fire to the new generation around the Bonfire!!! And to Mr. Lukome I will say pliz usikome hapa!! May the lord give u so much energy with so much fire to represent and above all share your fire like this by bringing out these stories.Mo fire yes!! And to start Magazine asanteni sana for upholding Real Hip Hop with so much fire!!! Mo fire yes!!! Mo fire yes!!! and thanks so much for dropping out this killer album with so much fire!!! Got ma copy already and one for the Bonfire Uganda Family.

Your lyrical content and story telling here is so rich with so much metaphors it honestly reminds me of all the days when our ancestors would pass on the fire to the new generation around the Bonfire!!!

And to Mr. Lukome I will say pliz usikome hapa!! May the lord give u so much energy with so much fire to represent and above all share your fire like this by bringing out these stories.Mo fire yes!!

And to start Magazine asanteni sana for upholding Real Hip Hop with so much fire!!! Mo fire yes!!!

]]> Comment on St. Nelly-sade: Luga-flo lyricist, emcee, poet and thinker by cymo http://startjournal.org/2013/03/st-nelly-sade-luga-flo-lyricist-emcee-poet-and-thinker/#comment-71168 cymo Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:42:21 +0000 http://startjournal.org/?p=6156#comment-71168 the future is bright......... no stoppin....UG big up the future is bright………
no stoppin….UG big up

]]> Comment on The harsh rebirth of professional theatre in Uganda by Serubiri http://startjournal.org/2013/03/the-harsh-rebirth-of-professional-theatre-in-uganda/#comment-71089 Serubiri Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:25:12 +0000 http://startjournal.org/?p=6057#comment-71089 ... exciting read. I hope Wankoko can be translated soon (to English), and staged professionally without a doubt. I read it in Luganda and that work is full of warnings, perhaps even to its own writer. … exciting read. I hope Wankoko can be translated soon (to English), and staged professionally without a doubt. I read it in Luganda and that work is full of warnings, perhaps even to its own writer.

]]> Comment on Free Expression by Mzili: For the love of a nation by David.Oduki http://startjournal.org/2013/03/free-expression-by-mzili-for-the-love-of-a-nation/#comment-71076 David.Oduki Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:48:48 +0000 http://startjournal.org/?p=6052#comment-71076 I love America! It helps that they have very smart people. The smartest English speaking Africans move there. It is very possible that a real defined Smart Education can help stir up patriotism. I love America!
It helps that they have very smart people.
The smartest English speaking Africans move there.
It is very possible that a real defined Smart Education can help stir up patriotism.

]]> Comment on The Collection Bug by RO http://startjournal.org/2013/03/the-collection-bug/#comment-70995 RO Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:47:35 +0000 http://startjournal.org/?p=6062#comment-70995 in my opinion every ugandan artist should first of all collect their own art work,then collect the work of their contemporaries and make sure these works dont leave the country.this will make a lot of sense in the near future. and finally its not about numbers of art works but aesthetic value.NOT every "good" work deserves to be collected. good job ANNA in my opinion every ugandan artist should first of all collect their own art work,then collect the work of their contemporaries and make sure these works dont leave the country.this will make a lot of sense in the near future.
and finally its not about numbers of art works but aesthetic value.NOT every “good” work deserves to be collected.
good job ANNA

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