Collaborative Curation with the International Library of African Music
Having personally spent more than a decade collaborating with artists, friends and colleagues at the International Library of African...
Uganda’s Mobile Money Tax: A tax on redistribution?
For nearly a decade now mobile money services have been seen as having the potential to transform communities in Africa by making it...
Walls and Wire: Renegotiating Urban Space in Uganda
Two weeks into my fieldwork at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Kampala, Uganda I start to go slightly stir-crazy. I spend the...
Friendship, Bricks, and Urban-Rural Transitions
Willy Ssali, Sam Ddamba and Phillip Kayongo met each other in Bwebajja village, 11km south of Uganda’s capital city the early 1990s....
Dust
I arrived in Kampala, Uganda in May carrying a suitcase scattered with items to manage my own cleanliness, advice from those back home...
Ideologies of Difference and Equality in Nima
When I arrived in Accra, Ramadan was just beginning. The zongos, particularly Nima where I spent most of my time, are full of Muslim...
When the waiting is over…
The extended period Alcinda Honwana[i] and others have referred to as “waithood” is part of everyday life for many young people in...
Alcohol and After in Uganda’s Capital City
After stopping by Makerere University, we decided to make a stop to see Nankya Elizabeth. Nankya is an herbalist who runs her business...
