Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Ronex Ahimbisbwe is one of Uganda’s most experimental artists, oscillating between painting, collage, sculpture, photography, and woodcarving—often deploying materials and techniques from each art form simultaneously. He calls his aesthetic approach indigenous contemporary. A graduate of the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts at Makerere University, his collections have been exhibited widely throughout Africa and Europe. www.ronexarts.com
Elizabeth Palchik Allen writes and edits. As an undergrad at Harvard, she was an editorial assistant at Transition under Mike Vazquez. She lives in Uganda.
Monica Arac de Nyeko is from Uganda. She was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African writing in 2004 for “Strange Fruit,” winning the prize in 2007 for “Jambula Tree.”
Doreen Baingana is a Ugandan writer and author of Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe, which won an Association of Writers & Writing Programs Prize for Short Fiction (2003) and a Commonwealth Prize (2005). She has also won the Washington Independent Writers Fiction Prize and been nominated twice for the Caine Prize. She has published two children’s books, Gamba the Gecko wants to Drum and My Fingers are Stuck, as well as fiction and essays in journals such as African-American Review, Agni, Glimmer Train, Callaloo, The Guardian UK, Kwani?, Chimurenga, and Farafina. She has a law degree from Makerere University and an MFA from the University of Maryland. She lived in the U.S. for sixteen years before returning to Uganda, where she is currently Chairperson of FEMRITE: Uganda Women Writers’ Association.
Elza Botha was born at Mokopane, Limpopo Province in 1938 and has lived in Johannesburg, South Africa since 1966.
Edward Echwalu is a photographer based out of Kampala, Uganda, whose work has appeared in a number of publications—FourFourTwo, the Wall Street Journal, and the Telegraph, among others. In 2009, he was the recipient of the Cranimer Mugerwa Photojournalism Award, and in 2010 was among the top ten finalists in the Africa Caribbean Pacific (ACP) Courier Photo Competition. He currently works as a photojournalist for the Kampala-based Observer, and freelances for Reuters. http://echwaluphotography.wordpress.com/
Sandile Goje works as a designer at Koch Ceramics in Grahamstown, South Africa. At Dakawa he was taught by Swedish printmakers Kristina Anselm and Malin Selman and by South Africans Eric Mbatha and Joel Sibisi. Both artists create an intricately and carefully textured surface. The Swedish printmaking influence is evident in Goje’s work which nevertheless remains inalienably African.
Frederick Golooba-Mutebi is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Research, Makerere University in Uganda. He studies the politics of development and [End Page 115] watches government and politics in the countries of the Great Lakes region of East Africa, with special emphasis on Rwanda and Uganda. He is a regular commentator on public affairs in broadcast and print media and writes a regular column for The East African newspaper. He is also a member of the Lukiiko, Buganda’s parliament, specially nominated by the Kabaka.
Phillemon Hlungwani was born in Thomo Village, Giyani in Limpopo Province, South Africa. He attended Artist Proof Studio to study printmaking under the mentorship of Kim Berman and the late Nhlahla Xaba and Osiah Masukameng, and is still based there today where he works as coordinator and facilitator of the APS professional artists programme, as teacher of papermaking, as a facilitator of Paper Prayers workshops, and as coordinator of the NOAH’s arks art teaching project. For more information, visit www.artistproofstudio.co.za.
Angelo Izama was born in Kampala, Uganda. He began his journalism career in 2001 when he joined Monitor Publications, which at the time was the country’s only independent media house. His reportage specializes in regional security and the country’s nascent oil sector. In 2007, he was awarded a fellowship at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.C., and in 2010 was a Knight Fellow at Stanford University. He is currently a plaintiff in a landmark case seeking to use Uganda’s freedom of information laws to access wealth-sharing agreements between the government of Uganda and several of the oil companies operating in the country.
Noah Jemisin was born in Birmingham, AL and...
