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Suni Magyar never planned on owning a crafts shop. Busy with her reflexology business in Uganda's capital of Kampala, the Kenyan-born, British-educated Hungarian-Scot set up Banana Boat, her first tiny 2-sq-m shop, on a whim. "There were lots of expats living in the city with big houses, lots of wall space and nothing to put on them," explains Magyar.[an error occurred while processing this directive] "Initially, I thought it would be quite fun to sell modern art prints." She was quickly inundated by customers looking for other home products and, since...
...wide to really incite appreciation as a grouping of photographs. Bookended by William Henry Jackson’s 1890 photograph, “Canon of Grand River, Utah” and Alex Webb’s contemporary color photograph “Guard at Sugar Plantation, Outside Kampala Uganda,” the collection spotlights more historical subjects such as political campaigning in 1956. The collection is certainly interesting from a photographical and technical perspective, but out of the three sections evokes the least emotional response to the prints. Without a more academic appreciation for photography, the pictures in this...
...have been distributed for free. But the government says that some 150 million replacements are on their way, and also promises a new public education campaign stressing A, B and C. Some activists remain unconvinced. Were and her colleagues point out that abstinence billboards now dot Uganda's capital Kampala where condom posters used to be. Uganda's First Lady Janet Museveni, a high-profile member of one of the country's fast-growing evangelical churches, has been spreading a message of abstinence and even advocates a "virginity census," though she's short on details about how to conduct...
...public march, a rarity in Kampala, critics of President Yoweri Museveni demanded that he promise to step down after his term ends, as required by the constitution. Backers of Museveni, in power since 1986, staged a rival rally...
...carrying nearly 300 Americans, Europeans and Asians who were evacuated from Uganda last week following the coup on July 27 that ousted President Apollo Milton Obote. In contrast to the friendly welcome, the travelers gave chilling eyewitness accounts of the confusion and fear that shook the Ugandan capital of Kampala after the coup. Bands of drunken soldiers armed with Soviet-made Kalashnikov rifles, sometimes replaced by gangs of thugs brandishing long knives, roamed through the city, looting stores, stealing cars and harassing Ugandans and foreigners alike...