Learning from Africa

In January 2020, the Chinese government placed Wuhan under quarantine. Effectively reducing movement of people within the city and moving outside it. To curb the spread of COVID-19….

Painting : (Selfie) by Sudanese artist Mutaz Elemam (2015)

You don’t have to walk for long in Khartoum city before you start to see contradictions; the old and the new…

Five ‘shade for stops’ waiting areas were created in seven days joint workshop between Ugandan and Japanese students….

Formed in 2017 by Saeko Kurokawa (clarinet) and Yosuke Tanaka (guitar).
Nyabo=Mrs, Ssebo=Mr. The name of the unit comes from the sound of a word that left an impression on Kurokawa when she travelled to Uganda…

s we walked through the streets of Uganda, we saw people spending their time in a variety of ways, such as opening stores outside and doing housework outdoors in the bright daylight…

I waited for my luggage at Entebbe Airport, but it never showed up. My WS in Uganda started with lost luggage.
It was my first time to go abroad, but I thought I would do it cheaply, so I decided to go from Narita → Naha → Bangkok (3 days stay) → Muscat → Dubai → Kigali → Endeavour, one connection after another. There was a lot of trouble along the way…..

Construction of Yamasen Japanese Restaurant in Kampala, Uganda.
Image : Timothy Latim
Movie : Tsuyoshi Anzai
Music : Nyabo Ssebo

The capital city of Kampala is surrounded by hills.
The German architect Ernst May (1886-1970) was appointed by the British government of the suzerainty of Uganda in 1945 to draw up the Kampala Extension Scheme…

I wonder how many of our readers picture the Republic of Uganda in Africa when they hear the word Uganda”. When I first set foot in the country in 2003, I was a second year student at university and asked by my professor if there was any architecture there…