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 
Bukkede is the Luganda newspaper here, and someone tipped me off that last week my picture was there. Now I’m really famous.
A friend read it for me (I speak about ten words of Luganda, just enough to not get ripped off my boda boda drivers), and it says something about me being confused during last week’s riot by the tear gas and taking a break for a fag.
TTIYAGGASI is tear gas.
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The 27th Comrade says:
Hahahahahahahaha.
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— May 9, 2007 @ 12:34 pm
The Phantom says:
yeah, trully famous!
about Gulu and the way most people here are not in touch with the reality, its ashaming. many wont admit it but we are still scared. there have been too many lies, too many stories of busees being ambushed at karuma…and when people come back safe, we can’t contain the shame.
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— May 10, 2007 @ 12:21 pm