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 Bought airtime for 10k (about $6) but was really distracted during the process, and when I went to load it I noticed it was already scratched. Unsurprisingly, the airtime wasn’t there.
The irony of the situation is that the guy who sold me the airtime was (kindly?) warning me to watch my bag.
“Ugandans, they are sharp,” he said. “They will take from your bag.”
He didn’t mention taking my airtime.
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