Three boys ran up and down a slope hitting wheels with sticks to make them turn like tops spun with a string in the small impoverished neighborhood of Kifumbira, complete with view of Kololo.
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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Three boys ran up and down a slope hitting wheels with sticks to make them turn like tops spun with a string in the small impoverished neighborhood of Kifumbira, complete with view of Kololo.
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The 27th Comrade says:
It’s a fun game when you have lots of energy to toss around. We played it when we were kids. Great waste of time.
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— May 21, 2007 @ 4:52 am
Anonymous says:
one small step by one small step…your blog is becoming alive!//
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— May 21, 2007 @ 6:25 am
dave says:
Wonderful photos, SL.
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— May 21, 2007 @ 6:03 pm
Scarlett Lion says:
Aww… shucks guys, thanks
Scarlett
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— May 22, 2007 @ 5:45 am