Some contemporary artists in Uganda have converted traditional objects and activities into a pointed vocabulary which they use to critique government and governance. Fred Kato Mutebi is active in this area. In this paper I have read and contextualised the politics in some of his works. I have traced the intricate link between his visual expression, public opinion and political activism. I have probed the ways in which an artist has transformed cultural symbol[ism]s into sites for political activism.
Kakande follows up the raptures, shifting boarders and radical transformations in Venda pottery. He examines how Venda potters respond to the competitive market by prducing un convetional forms rendered with creative animal and plant motifs.