TravellingMan[4]Jinja

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In the village I was struck by how "untidy" the abodes were. Just downright haphazard. Which I thought was really strange because African architecture tends to have strong aesthetic considerations.

*just one man's opinion

10h37 Thursday
29, November
2007
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  1. NguJaz

    oh. just to say. Uganda was one of the places i found to be abundant with food. Like Jamaica, even though there is economic poverty, there's an abundance of Jack Fruit, Banana, and a host fruit [food] we've never heard of in the dry South, so the people are not necessarily hungry [or at least shouldn't be].

  2. matome

    Ye, that bothers me too, the 'untidiness'. I always wonder about the architecture too, why is it that it has an element of dirt to it, in contrast to say, far eastern architecture.

  3. NguJaz

    ha se hore rea tswafa mos?

  4. lebogang nkoane

    Matome: I'd say it has to do with who was(or is) in control --- infrastructure development in Africa was/is not a priority ---- but the extraction of raw materials.

    Whereas in the East, a lot of 'settlement'---

    *trying to avoid to use my last left, card.

  5. Ovidius Nkoane

    yeah,,, the dirt does make africans seem a bit more closer to "nature". Some cultures,,, I ain't naming no names [colonizers] would paint us (africans) as barbaric, uncivilized and beneath them. Much like the dirt.

    **There is always a bicycle in images like these.

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