"Though I am a Muganda, I have friends from all over Africa, who I feel closely connected with as fellow Africans. Surprisingly, if we were back home, we might feel social pressure against our friendships, since many of my friends are from rival groups or clans. I have never accepted many of these traditional conflicts, many of which resulted from colonial favoritism, so I don’t wish to further such artificial separations within my art. I am aware of many of the ethnic groups from all over Africa and the different ways they dress and so on, but that is not how I see Africa today. Instead, I see how we are in many ways more similar than different, and that is what I choose to paint. If you are African, you will see yourself in my work. "I paint Africa the way I see it -- with no boundaries my eyes are those of an artist, not a camera."

-- James Kitamirike.

Citation Format:
Calder, Alexander (2000). UGANDA'S MODERN ART MOVEMENT.
Ijele: Art eJournal of the African World; 1, 2. [http://www.ijele.com/vol1.2/index1.2.htm].

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