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NRM unveils official Museveni election 2026 portrait

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Resistance Movement (NRM) has launched the official portrait of its presidential flagbearer, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, alongside the theme that will guide the party’s campaigns for the 2025–26 elections. At the event, the 1st National Vice Chairman, Al-Hajji Moses Kigongo, underscored the significance …

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Man faces trial for damage of Museveni’s portrait

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Buganda Road Magistrate’s Court has set November 30th, 2022 date for trial of Robert Mugabi, a boda boda rider accused of damaging the portrait of the president. Mugabi is battling one count of malicious damage after being charged last week. He appeared on Monday before …

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ARTS: African art gains

`Mona Lisa’ fetches U.S$ 1.68m at auction Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | A painting of an African princess from Nigeria’s Ife; the spiritual heartland of the Yoruba tribe, recently went under the hammer for more than U.S$ 1.68 million at the Bonhams Auction House in London. The African Mona Lisa …

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ARTS: The OBAMA portrait

Kampala, Uganda | KEHINDE WILEY | Over the course of the past year, I have had the life-changing honour of painting President Obama’s portrait for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. On Monday, we unveiled it to the world. I’d like to tell you a bit about it. In choosing the composition …

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ARTS: Portrait of a self-taught artist

Beyond the label, is there any truth to the compartmentalisation? Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | When Jak Katarikawe started to make art in the 1960s, everyone was stunned. Katarikawe, an illiterate, was a driver for David Cook, a Makerere University Professor of Literature (1962 1977). Katarikawe’s break through as …

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