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 Obi and Mawe came over to my place on Sunday for lunch. I made pasta with tomato sauce.
Recently, I introduced Obi to peanut butter and jelly. He loves it.
So when I served the pasta, he asked for some peanut butter. I offered to make him a peanut butter and jelly after we finished the pasta. He consented.
I ate it, slowly, begrudgingly, and it wasn’t that that bad. I’ve heard of house boys making things like bacon and jelly sandwiches.
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minty says:
Hi, love your persepctive on life in Uganda.
I’ve done avocado and cheese sandwiches; but with peanut butter and jelly, that’s some crazy mix!
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— February 13, 2007 @ 12:51 pm
Matt Raibert says:
I love pasta and peanutbutter!
http://www.thecookingguy.com/cookbook/recipe.php?id=194
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— June 19, 2009 @ 1:31 am
Dazy says:
Peanut butter with jelly is a new one for me! Sounds really yummy too…… gearing up with recipes for the cold days hopefully ahead!
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