The appropriation of external elements and their local domestication are important ingredients for the growth and survival of a distinct culture. Norbert Kaggwa, a student at the Margaret Trowell School of Fine Art, Makerere ...

This study examines the major trends and transformations in Uganda’s modern art practice since its inception at Makerere in the 1930s by Margaret Trowell. In the early stages of its development, Trowell was driven by her ...

The article looks at the ways in which external factors were a necessary currency for the emergency of new local modernism in visual arts, and at the means by which local resources were used in development in a wider context ...