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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With all the news about Mabira Forest lately, and with it being only an hour away from Kampala on public transport, was the perfect place for a weekend away (especially before my trip to Tororo – I know – I’m blogging out of chronological order).
We stayed at a lodge where we could watch monkeys frolic in the trees from the windows of the room, and on our walk through the woods, butterflies abounded. Monkeys called out sounding like birds and birds called out sounding like monkeys.
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