Uganda: Why Art?

opinion

Renowned Ugandan author answers those who question the relevance of the arts

A woman, or was it a man, dressed in a white suit, slowly got up from her front-row seat at the National Theatre in Kampala, moved up the stairs and onto the dim dusty stage, and proceeded to gyrate slowly, achingly, as though creeping up-right, from one side of the stage to the other and then off it with a deep bow. What were we, the audience, to make of this? Was this another example of the "irrelevance of the arts" as espoused by our political leaders?

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