Last month I went back to Uganda, almost a year after I’d moved away. I took photos for the International Trade Center and Good African Coffee. And every morning in Liberia when I pour myself a cup of good African coffee, I’m glad I went.
About Scarlett Lion
I’m an American photographer and journalist traipsing around Africa on the lookout for the ordinary and the extraordinary, using my camera as a pretext to enter worlds not otherwise available.
This space is a scrap book of web and life trawlings – photography, music, arts, politics, and other sundry subjects. It is also a vanity press for my unpublished (and occasionally) published work.
I found the scarlett lion on the roof a friend’s house in Kampala back in 2006 when I went through a crate of discarded items he and a few other artists had gathered. On that day, I was looking for something and I found the lion: a discarded kid’s toy made in China on the cheap, that somehow found it’s way to East Africa. Something about the hollowed out, paint chipped figurine appealed to my understanding of this amazing continent: I’d never seen a real lion, after all.
Previously based in Uganda, currently in Liberia. Always roaming.
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Oct 26
2009
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Fabulous photos as always. I too have my cup of good African coffee (from Ethiopia) not Uganda, every morning, and am always glad I went (to every place in Africa).
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You’re making me feel some kind of reverse home sickness Glenna!
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Yes!
Good African Coffee is the best thing you can put in a cup!!! Amazing pictures as usual. I especially love the endless work of women here portrayed in the last photo (or should I say snap?).
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Thanks for sharing your nice photographs giving me freshness. I feel I am ‘you’ who is enjoying fresh brewed coffee. Here is some more info: Most of Uganda coffee is Robusta, but the Arabica coffee is similar in profile to Kenyan coffees. If you want to buy Ugandan coffee, try the coffee from the western slopes of Mt. Elgon called Bugishu. Bugishu Arabicas are considered to be the best coffees produced by Uganda.
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the pictures are Amazing!!! I love those pictures! thanks very much for sharing!
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