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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A man claiming to be the designer of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party logo is seeking Sh3 billion for his effort. In his letter to the NRM Party Chairperson Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and the Secretary General Justine Kasule Lumumba, John Agira Ruhanga says …

  Reflecting on the recent arty innovation on the Kira-Kamwokya stretch Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | The recent initiative by Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA) to create an avenue for wildlife sculptures along the Mulago- Kira- Kamwokya stretch provides an opportunity to reflect on the type of art in …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The long wait to return home ended last night for musician Edrisah Musuuza alias Eddy Kenzo who happily stepped back on Ugandan soil. Kenzo arrived at 3:30 a.m. aboard a special Uganda Airlines flight, with 64 others from Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon and Cote d’Ivoire. He …

Affiliate of Nagenda International Academy of Art and Design targets work by starting artists ARTS | NATHAN KIWERE | The age-old maxim attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson goes, “If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon or make a better mouse trap than his neighbours, though …

London, United Kingdom | AFP | Would you put your slippers on display? The global coronavirus pandemic is still raging but museums are already gathering testimony and objects to remember life under lockdown. “It’s such an extraordinary experience,” Beatrice Behlen, senior curator at the Museum of London, told AFP. “When we …

Paris, France | AFP | In normal times, their canvas is the great urban outdoors, their collages and mosaics speaking to passers-by from city walls. But like everyone else, street artists must now stay home. Despite long inhabiting a legal grey area, the majority of urban art creators have taken COVID-19 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A masked child with tears rolling down her cheeks and a world stud in chains, embody some of the artworks that visual artistist Rashid Abdhufatah is using to raise awareness on COVID-19, in Kampala. Abdhulfatah’s murals which stand out on building walls in parts of …

Top conservationist art show in Kampala Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | Ugandan Ivan Yakuze who has built a globally recognised name in the niche of artists working with traditional fabric to create startling artworks has an ongoing exhibition in Kampala. Usually, Yakuze’s discerning eye for the unusual keeps everyone …

Since his groundbreaking public art performance in 2012 dubbed Secolliville, in Bukoto a Kampala city suburb and later during the Laba! Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | Street Art Festival 2013, artist Collin Sekajugo’s art has set unprecedented waves of interest and curiosity on the Kampala Contemporary art scene. This …

Biennales are major international contemporary art exhibitions mostly conceived in cities around the world and our dusty Kampala happens to have its own. ARTS | MATT KAYEM | Once again, it’s another chance for the international art spotlight to project its blaring light on Kampala. Running for its fourth edition …