From the minds and experiences of Ugandan Artists, here is an insight into their worlds being creatives in Uganda.
I knew my life was going to be steeped in creativity and artistry from a very early age; as early as five years old to be exact. I can never forget how moving it was to hear Celine Dion’s “My heart will go on.” Yes yes. I was a softie like that from then and …
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Most of the suffering I experience as a person in some way or form is rooted in having to endure the loneliness of being misunderstood; not because I was inarticulate or incoherent in the presentation of ideas, but because almost all my expression is steeped in cross cultural references stretched over centuries, relating to Charles …
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I have reached a sad point in life where live music isn’t as exciting to observe as it was when I was much younger. There is a lack of hunger and desperation to “do something different” for most of the acts I encounter. It is the same covers, performed over the same rat-a-tat tempo, three …
"If you don't believe in yourself, whatever you are doing is for no reason." BIBI BOURELLY. For so long and for so many reasons, I didn't believe in Ugandan art. I deemed it unsuccessful on so many fronts and for so many reasons; with what it had to say, with the seemingly narrow construction of …
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"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not the sitter." OSCAR WILDE. I am continuously drawn to believe that art is and has always been a story, an expression and a language, more to do with the artist than those that spectate the process of its formation, or …
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Artistry; its expression, it's enjoyment and the processes encompassing these, represents a profusion and vast majority of things to humanity for various reasons. To one, it symbolizes the sacred spaces of developed human …
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I didn't know much about the rap genre until my brothers grew up and in their adolescence became o.b.s.e.s.s.e.d. There I was, a fellow adolescent and just a couple of years older, forcefully tolerating the blaring and broadcasted boom-boom-boom-boom that was constantly and consistently so, sounding from their rooms on a daily. I mean I …
Meet Robin Malinga, aUgandanArtist. A lot of what this artist expresses as art can easily be speculated from meeting him and exchanging a few words, the least likely scenario being small talk for small talk’s sake. He’s the type that talks about what he sees, calling-em- as-he-sees-em, and outright asking why you wear your hair …
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