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started by Karen Keifer-Boyd on 22 Dec 11

#1 Karen Keifer-Boyd on 22 Dec 11

What metaphors and similes have had to encounter since you were just a kid?

I have had to use so many of these similes and metaphors and so many of them have actually been used on me, the ones that i have used on other people include the following;

Embookya' this was used by all of my class mates when we wanted to refer to porridge that was continually served hot, the 'hot', part in this word is 'okya' which is derived from the word 'yokya' which means hot. we used this word so much because of the fact that we used to have the 'embookya' on a daily basis.

The other word was 'Esuuti', we used this to refer to a meal of posho and beans.We used to have porridge in the morning and posho for lunch and in the evening we could have both, since putting on a suits have something to do with marching, we conjugated that word 'suit' to 'esuuti' to mean posho and beans.

Kibwebwenyi; i always used this word with an aim of refering to someone who showed some signs of being a glutton. the other users of the same word intended to make the gluttons improve on their eating habbits since the word actually sounded wild and abusive. it was derived from the Ugandan bed time stories and again in these stories it was meant to make kids avoid getting poor eating manners.

The other word was 'Ekijankunene'; this was normally used to refer to animals and male private parts. I personally used it only when someone annoyed me cause it always made me feel like it was so huge a word and whenever i used it, it made me feel like i had taken a huge weight off of my back, it was really insulting.

embooko yomuwala, i have always used this with an aim of rendering a lady or girl beautiful, literally embooko has a supposed meaning which is a stick or a cane and muwala is a girl so we used to combine these two to refer to beauty but this wasnt and isnt in any way an insult though of-course some ladies wouldn't want to here anything like that from anyone in reference to themselves.

UGANDAN ART

Uganda, on the equator and surrounded by the great lakes of central Africa, is one of the last parts of the continent to be reached by outsiders. Arab traders in search of slaves and ivory arrive in the 1840s, soon followed by two British explorers. these people actually did too much in the improvement of Ugandan art and because of them and the initial arts of Uganda, the two were combined to get what we have today as Ugandan art,

Uganda has a long history of art education. Under the British as a Protectorate, it was seen as being of less strategic and this allowed the establishment of art as a school subject. Art was only taught in white-only schools
Ugandan art is characterized by numerous arts and these include; sculpture, fashion, design, ceramics, drawing, weaving, and so many others.
Uganda has produced a host of famous artists in recent generations, despite experiencing a political roller coaster and huge social upheaval. Art was extended to degree level through the efforts of Margaret Trowell, who founded the Fine Art school at Makerere University in Kampala. Her courses emphasized the importance of building on existing artistic practices, but introduced new techniques such as silkscreen printing. Early students at the Margaret Trowell Fine Art School were the sculptor Francis Nnaggenda, a Kenyan, and the painter Sam Ntiro from Tanzania.
Exhibitions of outstanding students' work were held in prestigious London galleries. Some went on the study at London art schools or the Royal Academy. Many such students became lecturers at the school and helped nurture the talents of younger artists.The Fine Art school miraculously stayed open throughout this dreadful time of Idi Amin Dada.
Current resident artists and lecturers include the sculptors Lilian Nabulime and Rose Kirumira and painters Godfrey Banadda and Paul Lubowa. Their work has been featured in definitive texts on African art such as 'Contemporary African Art' by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir, and also in ground-breaking exhibitions such as 'Seven Stories of Modern Art in Africa' (1995-6, London, Sweden and New York). Bark cloth
Before Arab traders brought cotton into the country, there had been used fibres of the banana plant or the bark of the Mutuba fig-tree (Ficus natalensis).
Bark cloth(Olubugo)- it has its origin in Uganda and is a purely vegetable fibre. No cloth is like any other cloth - there definitely is a huge selection of the most natural colours from brown to different colourings.One of the finest materials from which Ugandan artists produce their handicraft is bark cloth, a fibrous if coarse material scraped off a fig tree. Lubugo as it is called in Luganda is made from the bark of a fig tree after being soaked in water for a few days before artisans hammer it out with a toothed mallet into a fabric. The fabric comes out in various browns, some of a very rich dark brown colour. Bark cloths hold a high place in many rituals in the kingdoms of Buganda and Bunyoro where princes and princesses were obliged to wear them. Yards of it, for are used to screen or drape the walls of shrines and god's homes. Kings wear them occasionally for ceremonies.

The blacksmith, whose handling the fire creates magic ideas, very often also assumes the role of a priest or the creator of ritual figures.

Normally, however, he was a craftsman who worked iron and who was responsible for the creation of daily articles, utensils, tools, and arms: spears, pastoral sticks, catapults (shotguns), arrowheads, knives, hoes, axes, bowls and so on.
Extraordinary masters of their craft had the honour to design and create staff for chiefs, clan chiefs and the king, with this articles made from iron being embellished with special ornaments and decorations. Catapults that are used to shoot at birds with stones(shotguns) and pastoral sticks were produced by the nomads especially in northern Uganda.

Pottery;
There are various types of pottery in Uganda with most of the pots and earthenware saucers being made of clay, and dark soil. Skilled potters slurp the clay and roll it in their hands as they carve products out, without using a kick wheel. Many tribes use clay to make smoking pipes, pots for carrying water and cooking purposes. The kick wheel is normally used in places with advanced technology for example in ceramics studios.

Basketry
Elephant grass and palm leaves provide for the raw material used for mats, baskets, and also woven bee baskets; they are also used to build traps for wild animals. Today also hand bags and wall hangings are made for decorative purposes.

There are several types of baskets made in Uganda, most of these items are finely and fancifully coloured with dye solutions to create intricate patterns and designs, which constitute the products of skilled craftsmen and women.

The Batooro (Toro) and Bahima from Ankole (Nkole) of western Uganda produce fine, little cylindrical baskets (endiiro) in which millet bread is served and kept hot. In Buganda, however, the baskets are bigger, and coffee beans, fruits and even bottle beer are often served in these. At modern kiganda weddings, men and women dressed up in kanzu and boding line up with the baskets (bibbo) as they approach the bride's home on the introduction (courtship).
Nicely hand-woven beer basket made from grass. These items are very scarce and absolutely unique.

Sculptures and masks; Figures and masks, made from wood for ritual purposes, as well as other daily articles in ebony and mahagony wood. Tobacco pipes have been developed into mass products.

The Material - Processing and colours

- Wood was processed by means of an ax with a transverse ax. It was either polished with soot or fatty mixtures or treated with the juice from roots and leaves. Subsequently, it was put in a slurry bath.
- Clay was formed by hand, without the help of a potter's wheel. The clay sculptures from Makerere in Uganda are especially famous.
- Colours were dominating, especially white, black, and red. These are colours of mineral, animal and vegetable origin.
- White (supernatural powers, danger and death) - Black (earth) - Red (energy)

AMERICA

I havent really been to this place but i have heard a lot about it and the following are some of the stories the have crossed my paths;

first and foremost, America is talked about as a country that has too much to do with the worshipping of the devil, this is done in numerous ways and one of these is through the 'Illuminati', this is defined as a secret orginazation of the most powerful and influential elite in the world.Its also looked at as something, 'ignorant people' deny exists. They are also looked at as rulers of this realm and many others like it. They are completely unseen, highly influential and possibly dangerous

The all-seeing eye is the elite's favorite symbol. It represents the eye of Lucifer, seeing all and is usually atop a pyramid, the symbol for a top-down command and control system of compartmentalization.They go back for centuries and maintain the same bloodlines.They set up the council on foreign relations. the symbols of the illuminati are reflected in so many of the day to day materials and lives of the americans.

This is evident in the following;
The all-seeing-eye on the dollar bill, which Americans see every time they make a cash transaction. Below the illuminati pyramid/eye symbol are the words: "Novus Ordo Seclorum," which can be translated as: ' A new order of the ages" This was CBS's original logo - it's no stretch to see the eye, this logo has changed over time, but the eye has remained the central theme. Apple Corporation symbol is Satanic, mocking the forbidden fruit which Adam and Eve ate.

so my view of america is that its more of a devil controlled country than it is for anything else since evil signs are manifested in most anything.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">What metaphors and similes have had to encounter since you were just a kid? I have had to use so many of these similes and metaphors and so many of them have actually been used on me, the ones that i have used on other people include the following; Embookya' this was used by all of my class mates when we wanted to refer to porridge that was continually served hot, the 'hot', part in this word is 'okya' which is derived from the word 'yokya' which means hot. we used this word so much because of the fact that we used to have the 'embookya' on a daily basis. The other word was 'Esuuti', we used this to refer to a meal of posho and beans.We used to have porridge in the morning and posho for lunch and in the evening we could have both, since putting on a suits have something to do with marching, we conjugated that word 'suit' to 'esuuti' to mean posho and beans. Kibwebwenyi; i always used this word with an aim of refering to someone who showed some signs of being a glutton. the other users of the same word intended to make the gluttons improve on their eating habbits since the word actually sounded wild and abusive. it was derived from the Ugandan bed time stories and again in these stories it was meant to make kids avoid getting poor eating manners. The other word was 'Ekijankunene'; this was normally used to refer to animals and male private parts. I personally used it only when someone annoyed me cause it always made me feel like it was so huge a word and whenever i used it, it made me feel like i had taken a huge weight off of my back, it was really insulting. embooko yomuwala, i have always used this with an aim of rendering a lady or girl beautiful, literally embooko has a supposed meaning which is a stick or a cane and muwala is a girl so we used to combine these two to refer to beauty but this wasnt and isnt in any way an insult though of-course some ladies wouldn't want to here anything like that from anyone in reference to themselves. UGANDAN ART Uganda, on the equator and surrounded by the great lakes of central Africa, is one of the last parts of the continent to be reached by outsiders. Arab traders in search of slaves and ivory arrive in the 1840s, soon followed by two British explorers. these people actually did too much in the improvement of Ugandan art and because of them and the initial arts of Uganda, the two were combined to get what we have today as Ugandan art, Uganda has a long history of art education. Under the British as a Protectorate, it was seen as being of less strategic and this allowed the establishment of art as a school subject. Art was only taught in white-only schools Ugandan art is characterized by numerous arts and these include; sculpture, fashion, design, ceramics, drawing, weaving, and so many others. Uganda has produced a host of famous artists in recent generations, despite experiencing a political roller coaster and huge social upheaval. Art was extended to degree level through the efforts of Margaret Trowell, who founded the Fine Art school at Makerere University in Kampala. Her courses emphasized the importance of building on existing artistic practices, but introduced new techniques such as silkscreen printing. Early students at the Margaret Trowell Fine Art School were the sculptor Francis Nnaggenda, a Kenyan, and the painter Sam Ntiro from Tanzania. Exhibitions of outstanding students' work were held in prestigious London galleries. Some went on the study at London art schools or the Royal Academy. Many such students became lecturers at the school and helped nurture the talents of younger artists.The Fine Art school miraculously stayed open throughout this dreadful time of Idi Amin Dada. Current resident artists and lecturers include the sculptors Lilian Nabulime and Rose Kirumira and painters Godfrey Banadda and Paul Lubowa. Their work has been featured in definitive texts on African art such as 'Contemporary African Art' by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir, and also in ground-breaking exhibitions such as 'Seven Stories of Modern Art in Africa' (1995-6, London, Sweden and New York). Bark cloth Before Arab traders brought cotton into the country, there had been used fibres of the banana plant or the bark of the Mutuba fig-tree (Ficus natalensis). Bark cloth(Olubugo)- it has its origin in Uganda and is a purely vegetable fibre. No cloth is like any other cloth - there definitely is a huge selection of the most natural colours from brown to different colourings.One of the finest materials from which Ugandan artists produce their handicraft is bark cloth, a fibrous if coarse material scraped off a fig tree. Lubugo as it is called in Luganda is made from the bark of a fig tree after being soaked in water for a few days before artisans hammer it out with a toothed mallet into a fabric. The fabric comes out in various browns, some of a very rich dark brown colour. Bark cloths hold a high place in many rituals in the kingdoms of Buganda and Bunyoro where princes and princesses were obliged to wear them. Yards of it, for are used to screen or drape the walls of shrines and god's homes. Kings wear them occasionally for ceremonies. The blacksmith, whose handling the fire creates magic ideas, very often also assumes the role of a priest or the creator of ritual figures. Normally, however, he was a craftsman who worked iron and who was responsible for the creation of daily articles, utensils, tools, and arms: spears, pastoral sticks, catapults (shotguns), arrowheads, knives, hoes, axes, bowls and so on. Extraordinary masters of their craft had the honour to design and create staff for chiefs, clan chiefs and the king, with this articles made from iron being embellished with special ornaments and decorations. Catapults that are used to shoot at birds with stones(shotguns) and pastoral sticks were produced by the nomads especially in northern Uganda. Pottery; There are various types of pottery in Uganda with most of the pots and earthenware saucers being made of clay, and dark soil. Skilled potters slurp the clay and roll it in their hands as they carve products out, without using a kick wheel. Many tribes use clay to make smoking pipes, pots for carrying water and cooking purposes. The kick wheel is normally used in places with advanced technology for example in ceramics studios. Basketry Elephant grass and palm leaves provide for the raw material used for mats, baskets, and also woven bee baskets; they are also used to build traps for wild animals. Today also hand bags and wall hangings are made for decorative purposes. There are several types of baskets made in Uganda, most of these items are finely and fancifully coloured with dye solutions to create intricate patterns and designs, which constitute the products of skilled craftsmen and women. The Batooro (Toro) and Bahima from Ankole (Nkole) of western Uganda produce fine, little cylindrical baskets (endiiro) in which millet bread is served and kept hot. In Buganda, however, the baskets are bigger, and coffee beans, fruits and even bottle beer are often served in these. At modern kiganda weddings, men and women dressed up in kanzu and boding line up with the baskets (bibbo) as they approach the bride's home on the introduction (courtship). Nicely hand-woven beer basket made from grass. These items are very scarce and absolutely unique. Sculptures and masks; Figures and masks, made from wood for ritual purposes, as well as other daily articles in ebony and mahagony wood. Tobacco pipes have been developed into mass products. The Material - Processing and colours - Wood was processed by means of an ax with a transverse ax. It was either polished with soot or fatty mixtures or treated with the juice from roots and leaves. Subsequently, it was put in a slurry bath. - Clay was formed by hand, without the help of a potter's wheel. The clay sculptures from Makerere in Uganda are especially famous. - Colours were dominating, especially white, black, and red. These are colours of mineral, animal and vegetable origin. - White (supernatural powers, danger and death) - Black (earth) - Red (energy) AMERICA I havent really been to this place but i have heard a lot about it and the following are some of the stories the have crossed my paths; first and foremost, America is talked about as a country that has too much to do with the worshipping of the devil, this is done in numerous ways and one of these is through the 'Illuminati', this is defined as a secret orginazation of the most powerful and influential elite in the world.Its also looked at as something, 'ignorant people' deny exists. They are also looked at as rulers of this realm and many others like it. They are completely unseen, highly influential and possibly dangerous The all-seeing eye is the elite's favorite symbol. It represents the eye of Lucifer, seeing all and is usually atop a pyramid, the symbol for a top-down command and control system of compartmentalization.They go back for centuries and maintain the same bloodlines.They set up the council on foreign relations. the symbols of the illuminati are reflected in so many of the day to day materials and lives of the americans. This is evident in the following; The all-seeing-eye on the dollar bill, which Americans see every time they make a cash transaction. Below the illuminati pyramid/eye symbol are the words: "Novus Ordo Seclorum," which can be translated as: ' A new order of the ages" This was CBS's original logo - it's no stretch to see the eye, this logo has changed over time, but the eye has remained the central theme. Apple Corporation symbol is Satanic, mocking the forbidden fruit which Adam and Eve ate. so my view of america is that its more of a devil controlled country than it is for anything else since evil signs are manifested in most anything.</div>

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