Top five artists on the Kampala Art Scene Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | Samson Xenson Ssenkaaba: Xenson is a first class graduate of the School of Industrial and Fine Arts at Makerere University and his name is synonymous with colossal experimental artwork produced from both indigenous (barkcloth) and synthetic material. …
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Art Safari finally comes to Kampala Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | The East Africa Art Biennale (EASTAFAB) is finally coming to Kampala. It’s happening in February under the theme, ‘Moving art across borders’. Biennales (Italian for `every other year’), are typically large international art exhibitions held in most cities around …
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At Ronex’s Memories and… exhibit Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | In Ronex Ahimbisimbwe’s ongoing exhibit, `Memories and…’, he picks some of his old works, spanning over 15 years, and reworks them into new art. The resulting large tapestries of collage, therefore, show familiar techniques and motifs that the audience easily …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Canadian graffiti artists and rapper David ‘Monk-E’ Yergeau will make a guest appearance at Uganda’s 11th annual Hiphop for Society event at Nsambya on Sunday January 28. Hiphop For Society is a popular, community event organized by Breakdance Project Uganda (BPU) every year in …
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Pallet wood: Creativity, innovation, recycling, pushing boundaries of art Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | Good art can be made from anything, regardless of the material used. This is evident in a current exhibition titled `Possibilities: Unspecified qualities of a promising nature’. On show are constructions; abstract and functional …
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Makerere gallery features explorations of ancient culture through paintings Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | Turkey has a rich cultural heritage. It is largely known as part of the cradle of civilization in Europe with recorded history stretching back over 15,000 years ago. It remains a dominant influence on contemporary European social, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An interview with Bruno Ruganzu, Uganda’s foremost eco-artist, by The Independent’s Dominic Muwanguzi You have been involved with TEDx for six years. What is TEDx about? Firstly, TED is an acronym for Technology, Entertainment and Design. TEDx is a product of the former, with the …
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30 years of fun, greed, and lechery on stage Kampala, Uganda | AGNES NANTABA | `Dr Bbosa’ is a very familiar name among fans of local drama series in Uganda. He was a character played by Sam Bagenda in the then popular long-running local drama series `That’s Life Mwattu’ that started …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lydia Keturah Kamugasa, Vision Group’s fashion columnist and editor is dead. Kamugasa reportedly succumbed to a heart attack at IHK hospital Kampala after collapsing in office on Wednesday. She was a long time editor of New Vision’s magazine Bride and Groom, before taking charge …
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Lagos, Nigeria | AFP | Mention Nigerian literature and the first names likely to spring to mind are Chinua Achebe, the author of “Things Fall Apart”, or the venerable Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka. But Africa’s most populous nation has a new crop of writers whose work is a far cry from …
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