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...
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...