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.
... on Why Invisible Children can’t explain away this photo Two publishes so far…
Uganda: Heavy Rains Mean Less Conflict in Karamoja
The more they travel with their cattle for water, the more likely they are to enter their neighbours’ territories
Disarming Karamoja; the pitfalls
Some parts of Karamoja have changed in the very recent past, and no one calls the conflict there a war. Yet, the armed Karimojong men are referred to as warriors: they carry guns, open fire at each other and the UPDF, and UPDF responds
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Michal says:
In my Sunday school class I’m teaching early Israelite tribes and why they kept fighting with each other and the Canaanites. One of the reasons was water and being able to live off your tiny patch of land. It’s amazing how little things change over the centuries.
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