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Soweto/Sowebo - Martha Cooper

Soweto is a big city on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Sowebo is a small neighbourhood...

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Durban Street Life by Tyler Dolan

South African photographer Tyler Dolan took to the streets of Durban for his latest series...

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Mapouka is part of what it means to be Ivorian; it is part of the heritage of the country, even if it shocks. The controversy about it exemplifies...
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The Outwin Boochever Portrait exhibition opened at the National Portrait Gallery on Friday and runs through February 23, 2014. This juried...

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Saved by education: A Somali woman’s story
Growing up in Mogadishu in the late 80s in a house full of young single women, the standard...

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Ethnic Doll Fashion

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Of boiled cow hooves and Ugandan manners

Any Kenyan living in Uganda will confess that manners are the hardest test for Kenyans to pass in the eyes of Ugandans.

For the five years I studied and worked in Uganda, I never found any Kenyan who adapted fully to the Ugandan way of doing things. We always stood out like sore thumbs.

Greetings are important to Ugandans, and if one does not greet others properly, it is taken as a sign of lack of manners.

During my time in Uganda, I lived on the outskirts of Kampala, where many Baganda uphold their customs, including women kneeling while addressing their husbands and serving them food, even if the dinner table is above their heads while kneeling — quite a shock to Kenyan eyes.

My Ugandan friend Barbra invited me to their home many times, and, although I enjoyed the food – roast chicken, vinyebwa(groundnut stew) and matooke, it was hard for me to bend my knees to her dad.

Barbra used to laugh at me when I would ask whether they had visitors every day, because of the variety of food they would have for each meal.

Even a poor Ugandan makes five dishes for a meal compared with a well-to-do Kenyan, who will just prepare ugali, sukumawiki and meat.

The popular roast meat, chicken, pork and matooke are also sold on the roadside, unlike in Kenya where such foods are limited to pubs and restaurants.

Boiled cow hooves and cassava is a meal that made me visit Mama Babirye Restaurant in Wandegeya more than four times a week, and any time I visit Kampala. Read More:

Kenyan art travels the world

Kenyan artists are continuing to make their mark on the international scene.

Eight of them feature in a London charity auction next month while two of those plus another artist are reaching out to gallery-goers in the US and Switzerland.

The auction is to take place at Bonham’s on the eve of the firm’s Africa Now sale of modern and contemporary African art, on May 20.

The works, which are being packed and flown to the UK this week, are by Peterson Kamwathi, Beatrice Wanjiku, Michael Soi, James Muriuki, Paul Onditi, Cyrus Kabiru, Anthony Okello, and Bertiers.

The photograph by Muriuki and the painting by Beatrice Wanjiku are particularly interesting. Muriuki’s view of a construction site in the Parklands area of Nairobi speaks of gestation, of rebirth, and of an unknown future, for whatever is built will alter the dynamic of the neighbourhood; while Wanjiku’s painting — The Constant Yearning — with its three disparate figures, deals with the search for emotional peace against a matrix of dissatisfaction. Her three figures are those she sees within us all… on the left resignation to our fate, in the centre denial, and on the right anger at our plight.

Money raised from the sale will be given to the African Arts Trust, and will be spent on the arts in Kenya.

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Pancho Guedes, 1001 Caniço Doors at Maputo, Maputo, Moçambique, 1960-1970

In the 60’s and 70’s, portuguese architect Pancho Guedes, collected countless images of doors from the suburbs of Maputo(then Lourenço Marques). He aimed to publish a book showcasing the creativity of the reed neighbourhood residents on the paintings in the doors of their houses.

(source : JA 241-Jornal Arquitectos, published by Portuguese Order of Architects, 2011-12).

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