I’m Glenna Gordon, an American photographer and journalist, presently commuting between West Africa and Brooklyn. Previously, I lived in Liberia. And before that, I lived in Uganda. I’ve traveled and worked in over a dozen countries in Africa.
This blog is named after a found object — a plastic lion that was in a crate of discarded items a friend and a few other artists had gathered. I sat on their roof in Nakasero, Kampala sorting through the crate. On that day, I was looking for something. “You are lost!” a Uganda might say. But, I’d found this discarded kid’s toy, made in China on the cheap, that somehow ended up in East Africa. Something about the hollowed out, paint-chipped figurine appealed to my understanding of this place: I’d never seen a real lion, after all.
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The 27th Comrade says:
There is really no similarity. One is doing it in the normal reaction of a leader (one I’d exhibit) when the West is sabotaging him. Mugabe was on top of a functioning, vibrant, admirable economy, until he slighted the West. Co-incidence? Cummon.
Another is doing it because he is a downpressionist dictator. Bush is just doing what he is supposed to do as a downpressionist.
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— August 6, 2007 @ 2:38 pm