The moment I walked into the pastel-colored, dimly lit room at the Renaissance Society, I was struck by the sound of gunshots. The exhibition is a maze of seven differently sized rectangular rooms, ...
Timbuktu Chronicles points to a Ugandan organisation, Uganda Crafts, “managed by disadvantaged people that helps disadvantaged people. The majority of the artisans are either people who are disabled, ...
Uganda’s economic transformation does not lie only in factories, oil pipelines, or tech startups. It also lies in our villages—in the calloused hands of an elder weaving a basket, the artisan carving ...
Lauren Parnell knows the true cost of fair trade crafts. She paid for her basket-weaving endeavor with an achy back and sore hands. While in training for her internship with Uganda Crafts in Kampala, ...
Few Ugandans are interested in contemporary fine art, leaving galleries largely to the expatriate community. Jean Feni talked to leading artists about their frustration trying to earn a living from a ...