With racism, xenophobia and food insecurity on the rise, Brogan Mwesigwa is recreating a traditional ‘getting to know each other’ festival as his contribution to Kampala’s KLA Art show
This time last year, Ugandan artist Brogan Mwesigwa was called by his grandmother. She invited him to a kumanyagana feast at her home in the village of Kabembe.
After a three-hour journey from his home in the capital, Kampala, Mwesigwa arrived to “the heavy lifting of gigantic saucepans and the slaughter of chickens”.