Here are some of my Pick of the Paintings
Average Size : 8"x 11"
Please let me know what you think.
the SON shines even brighter!
Fortunate not so!
Dance Africa!
Herds? Men?
Rythms Africa!
Old Jars of clay!
upon time!
...and so go forth brother!
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
SethS Paintings!
Fortunate not so!
Dance Africa!
Herds? Men?
Rythms Africa!
Old Jars of clay!
upon time!
...and so go forth brother!
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Another Day out
It is rare for me to go for a field day on a Tuesday, usually am touching up a few things . This time round a friend tipped me of a visiting American student who was doing his research on higher education in Uganda but wanted to see roots. I suggested my country village of Mende; why?
By a mere pressing of a few buttons, I was already touch with the relevant and off we went. As ever it is a nightmare moving out of this city where you have something little to do before you live, this time we had to fix Willi’s car before setting off, still optimistic we continued our way.
After a thirty minutes’ drive we got to the village which welcomed us with hilly beauty and the pink, purple, green school uniforms whose bearers must have been in lunch break.
The first school option that I had in mind was not the kind my guest wanted to see, I suggested we get to my grand’s place before we venture out elsewhere.
That sounded good and drove uphill where my mom and grandma were in busy harvest of ground nuts, something usual for me but also that impressed my guests.
My mom suggested a couple of other schools, we strolled down to one of them.
We were the unexpected guests to grace the enthusiastic school proprietor of Mirembe Primary school who took us around the newly constructed school with a population of about 50 pupils (that’s my guess).
You don’t need to pay this guy anything for him to volunteer the needed information; this guy had his profile well set like a first class PowerPoint presentation. With the history, of the area his pupils, school all at hand and how he was evicted from the previous rented premises to the current, we were fed on all this material in just about one hour.
Chris my reserved guest took a couple of picture while Willi my chauffer did most of the interviewing while I and Bernard looked on rather in awe.
Mende village, is like one of those unread novels stuck on the shelf, a lot has changed especially the people, my contemporaries seem to be another two decades older, and the social economic situation has gradually changed.
There is now a stone quarry industry that has sprung up replacing the traditional agricultural environment and also the cottage KANZU industry that was flourishing just about one decade ago.
In all that was my unusual Wednesday.
Till then.
By a mere pressing of a few buttons, I was already touch with the relevant and off we went. As ever it is a nightmare moving out of this city where you have something little to do before you live, this time we had to fix Willi’s car before setting off, still optimistic we continued our way.
After a thirty minutes’ drive we got to the village which welcomed us with hilly beauty and the pink, purple, green school uniforms whose bearers must have been in lunch break.
The first school option that I had in mind was not the kind my guest wanted to see, I suggested we get to my grand’s place before we venture out elsewhere.
That sounded good and drove uphill where my mom and grandma were in busy harvest of ground nuts, something usual for me but also that impressed my guests.
My mom suggested a couple of other schools, we strolled down to one of them.
We were the unexpected guests to grace the enthusiastic school proprietor of Mirembe Primary school who took us around the newly constructed school with a population of about 50 pupils (that’s my guess).
You don’t need to pay this guy anything for him to volunteer the needed information; this guy had his profile well set like a first class PowerPoint presentation. With the history, of the area his pupils, school all at hand and how he was evicted from the previous rented premises to the current, we were fed on all this material in just about one hour.
Chris my reserved guest took a couple of picture while Willi my chauffer did most of the interviewing while I and Bernard looked on rather in awe.
Mende village, is like one of those unread novels stuck on the shelf, a lot has changed especially the people, my contemporaries seem to be another two decades older, and the social economic situation has gradually changed.
There is now a stone quarry industry that has sprung up replacing the traditional agricultural environment and also the cottage KANZU industry that was flourishing just about one decade ago.
In all that was my unusual Wednesday.
Till then.
Saturday, July 07, 2007
SWORD Community Projects
The community is our business as well, we took time off to work at the
Orphanages,
very special thanks to all you who have backed us
in this cause.
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