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Karen Keifer-Boyd

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Uganda art culture

started by Karen Keifer-Boyd on 14 Dec 11
  • Karen Keifer-Boyd
     
    From: kebirungi marthar
    Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:05:20 -0500 (EST)

    i am so very interested in learning about all the different cultures. but my main interest as an artist is Photography. i love photography so much because like the saying goes "a picture is worth a thousand words." i can always express myself in terms of my work especially in photography. of late i have an obsession for documentaries and also fine art photography.
    i am looking forward to exchanging as many ideas as i can. but for starters, i have looked into the different documentaries which hav so far been released in Uganda. though many of them are sad, they always portray a message to the public.

    documentaryheaven.com/‹uganda's-silent-war, is a web page where you can view documentaries.

    Shocking documentary about child soldiers in Uganda, Africa. Winner of the Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award, in HD.

    Child abuse. Rape. Torture. Abduction. Death. They are the very stuff of nightmares. In Northern Uganda, though, they are not the groundless fears of imaginative children. Here the nightmare is real.

    Every night, 7 and 8 years old kids can be abducted by rebel soldiers. Once taken, the little boys may be forced to fight, burn their village houses and even kill their own parents or siblings. The little girls may be raped and forced to serve as "wives" to the rebels until they die or escape.

    Even if they make it back to freedom, though, the girls must battle their psychological and physical damage, and may well be infected with AIDS. If the boys escape, they must battle their memories: a mixture of fear and, even worse, unspeakable guilt at the atrocities they participated in.

    there are more documentaries like Dancing through the Pain, Diamonds in the Rough, Essuubi: Growing up with Hope. Essuubi is a luganda word meaning "Hope". there are so many other documentaries that portray the Uganda we are living in today but these are most catching, because they will show you all the things that happened and caused alot of suffering to the Ugandan children.

    but it is not all about sadness because Uganda is also a very Joyful country to be in. i will be posting more on the documentaries that have caught my eye. hope u can also enjoy them

    Uganda's Silent War, 9.7 out of 10 based on 14 ratings

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