There are significant differences between the words used for ‘pictures captured on light sensitive surfaces with the use of a camera’ in Luganda and in English. Ekifananyi is the Luganda word that is used to signify a photograph, but it does not mean a photograph. The noun “ekifananyi” is derived from …

Ebifananyi at The Uganda Museum, an exhibition relating to my doctoral research, following up on an earlier exhibition in Antwerp, Belgium and in Kampala part of KLAART18, a ‘public art festival which celebrates public art for and in the city’. The visitors of the show in Antwerp were welcomed with a …

Onderzoek naar de gezinnen met kinderen die de Canon van het Nederlands Openluchtmuseum bezoeken. De klantreis is in kaart gebracht en er is onderzocht of er beleving en interactie aanwezig is in de klantreis.

An installation based on the research for the last book in the Ebifananyi series. The book presents a largely visual social biography of the photograph Henry Morton Stanley made in 1875 of Ssekabaka Muteesa 1 of Buganda and his chiefs. The group portrait is one of the first photographs made in the territory …

Overview exhibition of the artistic output of PhD research

De afgelopen jaren worden er steeds meer agrarische erfpachtovereenkomsten gesloten. Hierbij worden percelen landbouwgrond voor tenminste 26 jaar aan een agrarische ondernemer in erfpacht uitgegeven. De inhoud van het recht van erfpacht wordt voornamelijk bepaald door de erfpachtvoorwaarden die partijen …

Twenty Ugandan artists made their interpretation of the first photograph made of a Buganda monarch. The picture, made in 1875 by Henry Morton Stanley has been (mis)interpreted by engravers. Even though the pictures that are known in Uganda of Kabaka (King) Muteesa are based on Stanley’s photograph, the …

The fifth book in the Ebifananyi series is based on the memoirs and slide collection of Engineer Martin Wangutusi Wambwa (b. 1928). He is one of the first western trained Ugandan engineers. Journalism and photography would have been his second vocational choice, had his engineering ambitions not worked …

Opiniestuk naar aanleiding van discussie over literaire canon

Nu in het hoger onderwijs een generatie studenten rondloopt die gewend is om via smartphones en laptops informatie te vinden en te delen, lijkt het aanbieden van digitaal studiemateriaal logisch. Verschillende onderzoeken tonen echter aan dat dit niet helemaal aansluit op de behoeften van de hedendaagse …