The first week of October 2008 was awash with fresh news that homosexuality is contaminating a few born again churches in Uganda. Whether this is fabrication or gospel truth, all I know is that it’s all supernatural. I was in a single sex Catholic school for four years (1997 to 2000) and even the altar boys were accused of forming a homosexual group commonly known among peers as STC. Twenty students one year ahead of us were expelled due to this perversion. One notorious classmate though in Stream C was finally expelled during our Senior 4 simply because he was reported to have peeped at a Senior 1 in the latrine. During our Senior 2, he had tried to grab my ‘willy’ one Saturday morning but I woke up fast and chased him away like a nightmare. My earliest encounter with a homosexual came when some kid from the neighbourhood wanted me to be a ‘bitch’ and he tried to snog me but when he said our ‘willys’ should touch (like Frottage), I said ‘No’ and chased him out of my room. He even tried to steal my toy helicopter bought for me as a Christmas gift but my observation instincts were way ahead of his perversion. Tell Angela that I don’t love Ben (like a Homo); I can only love Esther, Ruth or Delilah!” Despite lusting for girls during childhood, I fought my battles well. I never gave in to homosexual thoughts even if people practiced the vice. Many verses in the Quran condemn Homosex and one of them Surah Al Araf (Chapter 7) says in Verse 80, "And remember Lot when he said to his People, Do ye commit a Wickedness, wherein no Creature has set you an Example? Do ye approach lustfully unto Men, leaving the Women? Certainly ye are People who transgress all Modesty."
Flashback 24th June 2000: In the night from Friday evening to Saturday morning, I got up from my bed and went outside the dorm to pee in the loos. While outside, I saw a student walking slowly. He was coming from either the Kakoozan or Mugwanyan Senior 3 and 4 wing. I ignored him for a moment but when I looked at him again, I saw him walking towards the door of our Lourdelian Senior 3 and 4 wing. I couldn’t figure out the appearance of his face because it was dark. However, I noticed that he was wearing black trousers and jacket and he wasn’t short but rather of a medium height. After this, I went to class where I met J. Nkosa and R. Muliika (We nicknamed him the ‘First Black Pope’). At about 20 minutes to 4 AM, Nkosa left the class after telling me to wake him up and R. Kazibwe as well (at 5 AM like I used to wake up guys as Timekeeper the previous year). Muliika followed him at around 4 AM. Because I was the only guy reading in 4A and also because I was fearful that I couldn’t protect myself if foreigners invaded the school, I decided to go to Senior 2B which is at the safer end of the Administration Block. (We were robbed on Independence Night - 9th October 1997 - while in Senior 1 adjacent to Senior 2B - My beloved Longman Dictionary was taken from Muliika’s unlocked desk, saw it on sale at Nasser Road, Kampala - and also during our Senior 4 despite the presence of Group 4 Security but this time nothing of mine was snatched). I read for only 50 minutes and at a few minutes to 5 AM, I switched off the lights in 2B. While going down the steps outside 2B, I met Lugemwa and Mutex who were proceeding to our stream. I only bypassed them without a greeting. At the quadrangle gate, I met Ssekitto who was also proceeding to class and I talked to him for a short while. When I stepped onto the verandah of our Lourdelian Wing, I heard people’s voices. Because I was curious to know what was going on (Curiosity killed the cat – I must have had the Eye of a Leopard), I stopped, turned to face the Kiwanukan showers and saw a number of people moving towards the verandah on which I was standing. They seemed rare persons in the dark but I never wanted to believe that they were non-SMACKists, the tall P. Nyanzi could have been among them. I tried to recognize their voices but failed. They drew closer to me at a constant and slightly quick speed. What would you do if you saw the cursed pirates who had turned into ghosts in the movie “Pirates of the Caribbean” drawing closer to you like they are about to attack anything in their way? When the mob reached a certain murram path in front of the dorm, I became afraid and thought that they were coming to attack me so I ran towards my bed on the extreme end of the Senior 4 wing and just sat while gently placing my books on it. I didn’t even try to pretend that I had been sleeping. Immediately, the dorm which I had found quiet milliseconds ago became alive. The mob wielding sticks shouted for the lights to be put on because I hear someone had been trying to rape a Senior 3 Mugwanyan and ran into the Lourdel wing. Can you imagine a rape in a single sex Catholic school (with boys only)? We lived in a quadrangle. The only way out was either the single main gate or the forbidden “Air France” (through the glass windows) and over the fence. Now where had the guy passed? He must still be inside, the mob reasoned. Someone bravely came up and said the guy had passed near my bed, probably stepped on my blue metallic trunk (case) which was on the floor and gone through the window because he heard footsteps towards my bed. Wondering what would happen if the guys believed that it was me and suddenly lynched me, I walked out courageously as if I had just woken up to pee. When I came back I told guys what had happened and why I had run in. “I was scared” was all I said and the dorm quietened. These guys knew that I had always tried to portray a “saintly” disposition and such a thing would be unheard of in my profile scrapbook. I wasn't sinless, but I made effort to achieve Regeneration Holiness. [In fact, exactly 17 days before that night, an ancestral dragon of pretended holiness had been cast out of me by a brotherhood of born again Pentecostals led by Ray', a Senior 4 classmate in the B Stream and PL, the outsider who owned some businesses at our school.]
Homosexuality is simply an evil spirit. I heard that there were evil spirits roaming around our college; I’m not saying I was a Homo before the exorcism but who exactly was the culprit that night? The assault scandal took one week to evaporate and all along this time I was very worried what my family would think if I was falsely charged with attempted rape of a boy, of all humans, a boy and then suspended, expelled or imprisoned. Close to the end of the critical week while returning from the showers, I heard a classmate tell his buddies that he had no doubt it was me. Whether this was a joke to make them smile or not, I took it as one. You will never catch Aiko trying to rape a boy; NEVER! Another Friday Night in Senior 4, as I headed for the usual weekly Prayers for Bornagains behind the SMACK Library, a Schoolmate in a lower Class (probably S1 or 2) walked a few Metres infront of me towards the same Venue. Behind me leaving his Office Area was the Headmaster (Brother Edward Bukenya). I sensed he was following the two of us as I bypassed my Class at the End of the Block, but pretended that I had not noticed him. So when I reached behind the Library, I quickly told the Youngman to go pray on the extreme End of the Library. I waited on the nearer Corner for the Headmaster to try and ambush us. As he peeped, I watched him but was very glad I had thought ahead. He arrested us immediately and took us back to his Office accusing us of wanting to practice Homosexuality in the dark while other People watched Movies. (I knew the Entertainment Prefect in Senior 3 and the VHS Movies he usually picked were from the same Video Library in Bukoto on Kisaasi Road where I also rented Tapes. I had seen many of them during the Holidays, so I skipped most Movie Nights). Brother Bukenya commanded us to write Sorry Letters confessing the Sin we were planning to commit in the dark, but in defiance, I wrote that we were praying and if he expels us for nothing, GOD would "punish" him. When he read my Note, he let us both go.
Thank GOD none of the seniors at SMACK ever approached me to appease their lusts. Maybe I was too ugly, thank GOD for that! Do you see cocks jumping on cocks, bitchdogs sleeping with bitchdogs, or bulls mating with bulls? Homosexual marriage is unnatural; forget the instances in some lizards. Bum-drilling is taboo. There is no Problem with "philia" (Brotherly Love) or Sisterhood but taking it to the next level is just gross, you have to play by the Rules not the Game. Even if all the Women on Earth rejected me, I cannot become a Homo! Leviticus 18: 22 says, "You must not lie with a Man as with a Woman. This is a hateful Thing." Also, Leviticus 20: 13 adds, "The Man who lies with a Man in the same Way as with a Woman: they have done a hateful Thing; they must die, their Blood shall be on their own Heads." During Senior Five (Advanced Level), there was a bi-spectacled guy who liked holding my hand, but I abhorred it, so most times I withdrew my hand but courteously tolerated him as a brother from the next class. He used to call me "Guti" like the good-looking Real Madrid player in the early 2000s and visited my combination class regularly to see me plus others. When I learnt that he had been expelled from Macos for homosexuality, I believed it even though he never spoke about it to me. I just didn’t like the way he was fond of me yet we had just spoken for a few months. His gay history at Mwiri was also revealed at morning assembly. I wouldn’t have given in if he ever asked but there are people who do just because of financial constraints. I hear Homos have money and they enjoy recruiting desperate "scoobies". Being a homo doesn't make you rich. As Ugandans, we need to know how much Money we really need or want to avoid traps that will unbowel us simply because of the Love of Donor Money! Being dead broke is the Root of All-Evil, so get Good Money or die unpolluted but get rid of this Alternative Lifestyle! Some suggest it is a Family Planning Method, but it isn’t okay even secretly. Parents shouldn’t pressurize their unemployed children to get jobs and money; it might drive them into such activities. Be content with whatever GOD gives after you tithe in Church, Mosque or Synagogue! What we need is to be entrepreneurs and job-creators! I'm not claiming to be holier than homos; I have my Iniquities too, but all the major Scriptures condemn Homosexuality, which means it’s either done out of Rebellion or Ignorance.
GOD created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve nor Amanda and Eve. It is not good for a man to marry a fellow man. Moses married Zipporah, not a man. A man cannot be a wife, neither can a woman be a husband.
"Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; and overthrew those cities; and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities and what grew on the ground. But Lot's wife behind him looked back and she became a pillar of salt..." - GENESIS 19:24-26
"Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of GOD? Do not be deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor HOMOSEXUALS, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the Kingdom of GOD..." - 1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-10
I have never been a homosexual and will never be even if it costs me everything, but I know about demons influencing sexuality. Every animal has chemicals that will make it desire to mate. I'm not an exception, but I only fancy females. In Primary 7, I was told that I had a dirty mind. Truth be told, my secret dream was to set up Uganda's First 24/7 Hardcore Pornography TV Station like in the Netherlands, whether on registered cable or forbidden underground. Porn is powerful, it can make you do evil things by making them appear glorious like fornicating, adultery, oral sex, gay sex, anal sex, bondage sex, cunnilingus and masturbation - one of the ways homosexuals please their partners. But even if you masturbate yourself or your wife does, it is still evil. In Matthew 5:28, Jesus says, "...everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." The 7th Commandment given to Moses at Mount Sinai also says: DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY. So how can masturbating be right? I first jerked off in January 1997, two months before joining the only all-boys school I have ever enrolled into, and a certain bewitchingly clean Black girl was on my mind. Straight Talk Newspaper even wrote that it is not evil. However, I prayed to GOD that if I did it 100 times, HE must kill me. I even once heard strange laughter from the top of a tree while doing it at night, maybe it was a demon. In P7, we only had male teachers, but in Senior 1, I got to see female teachers again. In the first English lesson, I do not remember why the teacher called us to the front, but I went and touched her butt while she was standing behind the table. She then gave us a paper for writing our names and while I was writing mine, she came and stood behind me to read what I was writing. I bet mine was one of the first names she could remember. I later found out that her husband is actually my namesake. I was always eager to answer her questions even if some classmates weren't interested in her lessons, I did not care afterall she was a woman. It's not that I wanted to sleep with her but I had an affinity towards certain women. I was in the chapel choir (which I quit without regret after third term) but I just did not understand why my hormones couldn't shut up: I drew naked women. I felt uneasy in my spirit, and even my eldest sister once said that I must be possessed because of the disrespect in my tongue, but never believed demons could reach me until one night in 1997 when I was alone in class after midnight. I sat in the third column out of four in our class, somewhere in the middle rows and suddenly, the desks in the second row began jumping from front to back. It's like a giant serpent passed under them. Immediately, I fearfully packed up my books, padlocked my desk locker, switched off the light and ran to the quadrangle. In the last week of second term, I got a constant pounding headache that would only ease up when I closed my eyes. I got tinted spectacles during the holidays until I lost them in 2002, defects were blamed on watching too much TV and bright lights, but I felt it was all demonic. GOD probably allowed them to punish me for my lust and other sins. I even had a number of X-rays for complaining about constant chest pressure and pain but all results showed that my heart and ribcage were shaped okay. On Tuesday 2nd December 1997, I asked Jesus Christ to come into my heart and get rid of any demons before they drag me to hell. Another time, I ran from a darkened chicken house feeling an evil presence coming towards me, hit an avocado tree with my head and fell down backwards but got up immediately and bolted again.
I did not see wet dreams until 2001 (at age 17). Naturally, sperms accumulate in males and after sometime, they find a way out to leave room for new sperms. I read somewhere that Missionary sex in marriage (male and female partners facing each other) is the Holiest Way to expel sperms. Doggystyle is even reserved for Prostitution because it's animalistic. Nevertheless, wet dreams also expel sperms but are brought by fallen spirits or witches involved in astral sex. Do you remember the 200 angels that lusted for women on earth in Genesis, Book of Enoch and Jubiless? 20 of them were allowed to roam after the flood while the rest were locked away. There are also female marine spirits or mermaids. As a kid, we used to be warned of a red merman at a school near home, Lake Victoria was just hundreds of metres behind it. Some beautiful women in public places might be that kind. Engels actually walk on earth (Hebrews 13:2 and during Lot's time). When you open the door through pornography for a succubus (or incubus for women) demon angel to come into your life, it will seduce you because of its vast knowledge and experience. If you do not masturbate, fornicate or commit any other sexual sin, it will rape you when you sleep until you exorcise it [Check out http://www.yourghoststories.com/]. This is not fiction, many people hate masturbation (or fornication) but find themselves doing it because it is forced sex caused by a stubborn sex-obsessed demon which you cannot see but can feel [Check out Music Videos: "Omuzimu Gwa Nankya" by MERCY CROW (Ugandan) or "Karishika" by FALZ ft. PHYNO & CHIGUL (Nigerian)]. Some pastors, stand-up comedians plus health publications encourage masturbation but it is totally wrong. Hungarian Eudoxia Varga testified that she saw a vision of hell in which an unbelievably beautiful demon cast spells and convinced humans on earth to practice masturbation. Pornography makes masturbation irresistable because it turns you on. It is important for males to get circumcised early so that the temptation to masturbate wanes especially when they are washing the inside foreskin on their uncircumcised penis, my undoing in 1997. Masturbation is wicked, it is like onanism (coitus interruptus). Onan was the grandson of Jacob talked about in Genesis 38:9. The LORD showed a Zambian Lady called Inonge Mushala a section of hell for those who masturbate. It was dreary and desolate. She saw a woman chained with large shackles on a chair on which she was sitting burnt beyond recognition. Her gray and charred body looked like ash. She was in agony and was there because of masturbating during her earthlife. 1 Corinthians 7:9 says, "Get married instead of burning with passion (or lust)!"
It's funny that gays also have fashion/ beauty pageants too where they dress like women for a prize but real females need to cover their bodies properly, it helps the males. Muslim attire sets an example, but there are many other decent fashions like North Pole or Russian dressing plus the Nigerian wear with headscarf, to mention a few. As a male, I understand the chemical reaction that exposed breasts and enticing thighs can ignite in a man unless he resists the pleasant attraction. Some women copy the wrong fashions, even trousers were meant for only men in Moses's time. Proverbs 5:19 says that a Man should let his wife's breasts satisfy him at all times, but not every woman is your wife. Therefore, women need to avoid exposing cleavage both infront and behind to every Tom, Dick and Harry! Do you see men walking around with their balls showing teasingly? Men also need to avoid "balancing" (sagging trousers or pants). Those are things that pimps and prostitutes (hoes, harlots, sluts) do, selling their sacred private parts just to get money for buying expensive hair extensions, weaves, wigs, perfumes and acidic cosmetics. Adam and Eve were created naked, but when they fell, GOD made for them clothes because he knew what could happen. Even native cultures that used to dress half naked had limits, but covering is very helpful. Unbelievably, some African women still dig in the garden barechested. The first campus girl I fell in love with caught my attention because of her scent and peaceful way she carried herself, but she had nice brown boobs too. I wanted to marry her and she wanted to finish her university studies. I never planned to ruin her studies and believed we could stack up the grades together (At least, having studied English seriously, I felt I wasn't too daft in academics), but we only related for 14 to 15 months before we grew apart when I took one of her many paper photos without permission. I had tried too hard to make her mine but growing apart made me ponder the difference between love and lust. Someone once told me a circulating rumour that girls would show me their thighs and I would do for them their courseworks yet it's just that I was not selfish with the little I knew. The rumours were not factual. For two consecutive nights though, I once had a totally decent Marketing discussion by invitation with six female classmates. Those two nights, when I got back to my hostel, I slept like a baby, no dreams, no nightmares, nothing, just smooth peaceful sleeping till dawn, but woke up with nocturnal emissions. How they happened, I cannot explain but appreciated the power of the mind even if you program it to do the right thing. Women are not sex objects, its an image planted in our minds by our fallen bodies. One wife should be enough for any man. While going to school in Jinja, I used to buy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles chewing gum from a store on Main Street owned by the parents of a demon-possessed (so they said) Muslim friend of mine. His mother was so beautiful that I asked myself why a Muslim hajj needs a second wife when he already has one like my friend's mum. Problems can arise naturally in the real world, but if it is lust, you need self control that only the Holy Spirit brings. I feel sorry for convicted rapists and arrested sex offenders or defilers like the one I met in jail around February 2005. He told me and another jailbird that the 14 year old girl who accused him of defilement actually asked for sex, then denied asking for it. True story, young girls can be quite touchy but you have to resist the temptations or end up in jail. If only brideswealth, dowry or marriage fees were cheap, then so many sexual sins in the world might be minimised. Men also need to renew their minds. Humans can still breathe without frequent sex, they are not ferrets.
Sex frequency is overrated; It should be reserved mainly for procreation and bonding between married individuals, not just recreation. Why should something so wrong make us feel so right? Prostitutes, gigolos and call girls will run out of business and save themselves by doing alternative trades. Fornicators, adulterers, rapists and defilers should also control themselves, Holy Spirit can help! We need to keep asking, seeking and knocking. Male homosexuals can marry and enjoy female partners instead, there is German juice and Ugandan juice in the east, west, north and south. Why lust after a fellow man? Why does money and lust mess us up like this, or is it just invisible devils? Anal sex and masturbation are evil and demonic. There are so many alternative things to think about on earth instead of gay marriage or gay rights (like America since 2015 and some European countries). Only GOD can judge LGBTIQs, but HIS Law says homosexuality aint holy nor wise. Like Michael Jackson (who was being accused of sodomising young boys) sang in "Stranger in Moscow", LORD have Mercy! We are talking 'Danger!'...
Monday
Animation in Uganda
One of the Most Complicated and Painstaking Visual Arts is 3D Animation, a Twin Sister to CGI used in Movies. Before the Turn of the Millenium (2000), many Ugandans, such as US based Solomon Jagwe (Soreel Graphix); UK taught Yunus Sebyala (X-Toons Animations); Richard Musinguzi (nicknamed the "Walt Disney of Uganda"); Isaac Oboth (C.E.O. of Media256 and Winner of the Young Achievers Award in the Film and Technology Category 2011); Swansea Metropolitan (now University of Wales Trinity Saint David) graduate David Masanso (Crossroads Digital Media); Andrew Cara, my Old Boy from Upper Primary (1995 to 6, who uses the avatar AndrooPCP on YouTube - I admire the Levels of Skeletal Rigging he has reached); the versatile and incredibly undisputed Maurice Kaweekwa (nicknamed Wekwes, signs his Oil Paintings as MKaweekwa); the alchemic Agwau Otim (Oparaah); New Vision Cartoonist Kato Richard; self taught Phizy Pwoch (I learnt from him that "Better Work is the ultimate Strategy"); Sidney Sengooba (of Brand Media Uganda) and females like Sarah Alego, Catherine (Kathryn) Mirembe plus others (even though not listed) had started experimenting with 3D Animation and Motion Graphics. A Journey of a thousand Miles always starts with one Step. Even the Longest River starts from a Source. Like South African Freedom Fighter Nelson Mandela once said, "It seems impossible until it's done..."
A new Dawn and Era has come for 3D-CG in UG; I call it Uganimation. Check out the animated Squirrels drumming to a Nandujja Song courtesy of Crossroads Digital Multimedia Ltd! Another good Animation is the Uganda at 50 Years Montage plus the realistically rendered Imitate Video featuring a Hat-seller waking up to ride his Bicycle to the Market. On the Way, he battles with Monkeys. This Video won the inaugural 2013 UCC (Uganda Communications Commission) Film Festival Award for Best Animation. David recommends that encouraging young Ugandans to take up the Art Form early can sustain the Industry. Following this Success, his Company (Crossroads) is working with a UK Organisation to build a 3D Computer Animation Incubation Centre and Studio. This will empower Ugandans with Skills to compete for outsourced Work and animate African Stories. Also, in a Programme that supports Entrepreneurship in developing Countries, David was chosen to work with the Chief of Entrepreneurship at the United Nations.
Ugandan Broadcasters, most notably the veteran UTV (now UBC), ballistic BTN (in Arua), hot NTV, very modern Urban TV and Pastor Robert Kayanja's sumptuous Channel 44, etc wonderfully expose Youngsters to Animation by running Cartoon Programmes, despite mainly foreign ones. Nevertheless, the End justifies the Means! By 2011, the Animation Industry in the Pearl of Africa was regarded as "young but growing fast" and it will never die despite the Challenges. I remember in the 1990s, there was a Privatisation Campaign brilliantly animated for TV. I wonder where it was done! One of the major Challenges in UG though is Production Capital, not only monetary but also technological Skills. If upcoming Animators and enthusiastic 3D Artists keep trying new Tricks, more improved Work can be produced. Learn from the Best! Tra-Digital Animation is also recommended by Experts. It blends both the old and new, traditional hand-drawn and digital like in The Princess and the Frog (Disney Animation). TDA takes the Best of Both Worlds and explores new Possibilities in Storytelling. We should never think that the Medium alone, in this case 3D Animation produced using 3ds max, Maya, Mental Ray, Blender, Vue 7, Poser, ZBrush or LightWave (used to make 300, Iron Man and Finding Nemo) tells the Story. TDA is also a great Supplement, and so is Google SketchUp Pro used to design Google Earth Maps.
In 2010, Makerere University Kampala and Digimation UK entered a Partnership to conduct Digital Animation Courses in the well facilitated Faculty of Computing and I.T. Meanwhile, Artfield Institute was also founded (in Naguru near Kembabazi Catering) to offer Courses in 3D Animation and Graphic Design.
Some notable Animations featuring UG Themes include the robotic Sadolin Paint Tinman walking on a Street and into a colourfully interior-decorated Home; the MTN "Yori Yori" Caller Tunez TV Commercial (by Phantom in Nsambya), is it really from RSA?; the Superman-like Warid Pesaman (now Airtel's Mr. Money after the Merger - "You smell..."); Daily Monitor (Independent Journalism) at 20 Years (1992-2012 and beyond); “A violence-free Childhood is everyone’s Right!’’ goes a TV ad starring Froggie, the amusing cartoon Mascot used by Raising Voices, a local Women and Children’s Rights NGO in its Multimedia Campaigns that also feature real life Ugandan Celebs like Sarah Short. Froggie reminds me of some hilarious Frog from way back during RS Elvis’ Variety Show (Ekitobeero A la Carte) where after signing out with his trademark “Cut!” Phrase, the Frog objects, “Wama, don’t cut!” and goes on to say or do something to crack your Rib; Meditex (Kabode) Soap; WBS Television's Superbrands 2013/ 14 Celebratory Dance by a tall beautiful female Character dressed in a yellow Blouse (if outside is shiverishly cold, then stay indoors to watch this hot Animation topped up with a Nigerian Music Score or the Nkoza & Nankya TV Series; Animated Snippets mixed with realtime Video Footage of Youth in "Lwaki (Why?)" by EYEZEE OMUWANDUZI ft. SANDSOUL; the Animated Music Video (AMV) for "You Want Another Rap" by the Most Excellent Rapper SEVO (Uganda's President) produced by Yunus and his Crew that included (NTV) Mini Buzz Cartoonist Jimelux Tashobya; the Twenty23 Parish Development Model (PDM) Sensitization commercial; a Music Video combining human footage with animations entitled "Uganda Yange" by Sweden-based GEROCK; Galiwango: Obulamu Bwe'Kisodde/ The Life of a Gorilla (Luganda Animated Film) by Solomon Jagwe and many more Creations. In a black and white World, true Colours show: I bet the AMV for "Power" by GNL ZAMBA is one of the Most Amazing around here, a Kino Musoke Picture presented by Dragonfly Media Studio 80z. Other notable Animation Studios in UG include Fruity Media, Image Now, DFH Uganda (Multimedia), Bumba Studio, etc.
To become an Animator, you need Knowledge about Skeletons, i.e. Bones, Joints and their Positions; it is actually Skin-deep. That is when you realise that the compulsory Science (Primary 4) and Biology Lessons are very important. I remember during O’Level, there was a real Human Skeleton wired to stand upright near the Entrance to the Biology Lab. Whenever we walked in, we would crack Jokes with the Skeleton Man. Now I know he was truly a V-VIP in the Lab! Lazarus, come forth! A Character Rig is the Digital Skeleton created by Animators inside a 3D Mesh. Like a real Skeleton, a Rig is made up of simple or complex Joints and Bones, each of which act as a "Handle" that Animators use to bend the Character into desired Poses like Prophet Ezekiel (Zul-Kifl) in the Valley of dry Bones (Ezekiel 37). Joints are assembled exactly where they would be in a Real World Skeleton, with one or two Exceptions. In the final Clip, the Pseudo-skeletons disappear. Allow me to drift away, the Quran records incredible Stories of talking Animals, for example: Ants have marvellous Communication Skills at Ground Level (Quran 27:18-19 [The Ants]) plus King Solomon knew the Speech of Birds (Quran 27:16-17), a Hoopoe spoke to him (Quran 27:20-28) just like a Donkey spoke to Balaam in the Bible (Numbers 22:28). A Serpent spoke to Eve while a Burning Bush ordered Moses to take off his Sandals because he was standing on holy Ground. How did all the different Animals enter Noah's Ark (Safina Nuh) in Pairs? Maybe GOD talked to them. Jesus told the Pharisees in Luke 19:40 that even if they made His Disciples keep quiet, the Stones will cry out rejoicing and praising GOD with a loud Voice. According to the Book of Jubilees (Lesser Genesis), Hebrew is the Language of Heaven and was originally spoken by all Creatures in the Garden of Eden. However, the Animals lost their Power of Speech when Adam and Eve were expelled. So Animation is also based on Reality, not just Fantasy. Besides, Parrots can speak sensibly to Humans. About Superpowers or Superhuman Abilities, well: Enoch went to Heaven alive - GOD took him; Moses parted the Red Sea; Joshua marched with the Israelites carrying the Ark of the LORD while seven Priests blew seven Ram-horn Trumpets for seven Days (once for each of the first six Days but seven Times on the seventh Day) until the Walls of Jericho fell though Rahab - the harlot and her Household were saved; Elijah ran faster than a Horse; Samson tore a Lion's Mouth; Solomon enslaved Demons; Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego couldn't be burnt in a fiery Furnace; Mary gave birth without a Man; JESUS walked on Water and did many other amazing Things; Fingers of a human Hand wrote on the Wall of a Palace; etc.
Uganda harbours many Fine Artists and Comics Cartoonists like the incredibly gifted Loukman Ali, my OB Christian Mafigiri, Derrick Dre (PassionateArt UG), Colourist Brian Amanya, Daily Monitor (Newspaper) Cartoonists Mozeh and Chris Ogon Atukwasize, etc who can metamorphose into Animators if they choose. If you want more Fun, then just mark your Calender for IAD (International Animation Day on 28th October, about three Weeks before World Television Day on 21st November) every Year plus check out - http://www.ugandacartoonnetwork.com/
Personally, as the Walt Disney Company's Paperman (Best Animated Short Film at the 2013 Oscars) wonderfully portrays using the (Final Line Advection) Meander Program developed by Brian Whited, I think one Tool that will enhance Drawn Animation is hybrid Software that takes 3D Technology and brings it to the 2D Arena allowing Artists to animate in 3D Space any handdrawn pictures (whether scanned or sketched on Wacom Tablets and Electronic Paper), something like 2.5D. Sometimes, I imagine uganda telecom's delicious Mango mascot, branded in the early 2000s by my Favourite Newspaper Cartoonist Danny Barongo making a Comeback as a Blue Mango! It's all about you!
*Courtesy of Aiko (Ugatoons)
Welcome to Cartoonland 256, at the Heart of Africa!
Off his third studio Album (entitled Mwooyo), Maurice Kirya croons about a girl that came into his life and changed his Perception about how he has always chosen to love a Woman. He even starts thinking whatever is happening is not real, it's just an Illusion too good to be true; she is like an Invisible Girlfriend. The Animated Video of this Song creatively rigged by Yunus Sebyala's X-Toons Animations wonderfully illustrates this ageless Conflict. Mwooyo Kirya is truly soulful as usual.
[INTRO]
Ooh, ooh, ooh (Buno obuzimu bwa munno)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, er!
[VERSE ONE - MAURICE KIRYA]
How did you end up in my life?
How did you cast that spell?
Tell me who sent you, oom? Is it Heaven or is it Hell?
[HOOK]
I built a wall so high, a wall that you defied.
But this can't be, ooh!
I never fall this deep. No! No!
[CHORUS]
You're not real, you're a ghost!
This can't be, (Buno obuzimu bwa munno).
You're not real, you're a ghost!
It's an illusion, (Buno obuzimu bwa munno)!
[VERSE TWO]
Listen! How did you end up in my life?
How did you end up in my bed?
How did you get me so in love? No!
Coz without you I feel dead, whoa!
[HOOK]
I built a wall so high, a wall that you defied.
But this can't be, ooh!
I never fall this deep. No, and no, no!
[CHORUS]
You're not real, you're a ghost!
This can't be, (Buno obuzimu bwa munno).
You're not real, you're a ghost!
It's an illusion, (Buno obuzimu bwa munno)!
[RAP - RUYONGA]
(W???? Hiddn Empire! Yeah!)
Ru, it's like: I only see you when my eyes go, closed.
Got me wondering how you got so, close.
Till am on fire for your holy smokes.
To quit you, ama need the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, whoa!
Higher obsessed with me, you're so excessive!
Trying to own me, you're so possessive! But so depressing, ontulire!
Coz you know what you did, here wewandogere!
Creeping in through the mist, crawling through the dark.
Reaching out for my heart, persisting in your call like that whisper
in the wall.
Sliding inside of my bed, with every lie that you said.
I need you out of my head, coz...
[OUTRO]
You're not real, you're a ghost!
This can't be!
You're not reeeeal, (Buno obuzimu bwa munno)!
You're not real! (Buno obuzimu bwa munno),
(Get away from me [2X]), (Buno obuzimu bwa munno),
(Get away from me)!
END
"Power" by GNL ZAMBA Lyrics UG’s hip-hop messiah GNL bakes another poetic cake in 2012 and ices it with a fantastic animated music video presented by Dragonfly Media Studio 80z. It's also a Kino Musoke Picture. Shout outs to shinetz.blogspot.com! I couldn’t transcribe the muffled voice of the lady in the chorus that reminds me of the incredible three Singing Chipmunks but here is the rest of the flow (in black and white) from the Lord of Uga-Flow, not just Luga...
[CHORUS:]
[INTRO (GNL Speaking): ]
Power, you want to talk to me about power, right?
It’s like am in a castle right now.
And am overlooking Kampala’s bright lights,
Everybody’s lined up.
And my car is pulling through the streets,
Everybody’s saying, “Koombaye!”
[VERSE ONE:]
I’m the Lord of the Ring.
I’m not a slave, I’m a king.
I float and I sting.
It’s my rhymes to make your heart sing.
Feel the pain or the sling or the joy that I bring.
I was raised in the ghetto but now I shine and I bling.
When you put your heart to the ceiling, it’s a G you are feeling.
Hip-hop Uganda now looks up to me for healing.
In the studio or the stage, I’m looking for the Shilling.
Every dog has its day, it’s my time for the killing.
Many try hard, but they can’t stop the G from winning.
I’m the Best and, as long as the Art keeps spinning.
I’m evolving and building, it’s not the end (Baboon Forest), it’s the beginning.
I’m making love to the game, you can call it my Second Cum-ing!
As a Newton of the game, I’m a magician with the flame.
When you hate, it’s a shame.
You’ve been late since I came.
I’m a god, you’re a pilgrim. Pay your Homage!
Let me live my dream, just let me get my cream!
[CHORUS:]
[VERSE TWO:]
(Zye, real talk, ah yeh!)
I remember growing up, sweet dreams were a myth.
So you know to unman, a nigga had to sweat like Keith.
Through the cold, I was gritting my teeth with my sis,
With no accommodation, broke, lying in the abyss (I remember that time).
I’m the type of nigga radio used to diss, but now am in bliss because am a crown prince.
Peace to my nigga Emron for the Genesis.
Coz’ now we pack Greatness like Guinnesses.
Baboon Forest, we the bubble geniuses,
Show you how to turn dem poems into businesses.
I’m not an artiste, am a legend.
You’re a curtain-raiser, am the main event.
Don’t you know, am Socrates when I think, am Gandhi when I speak, Chinua Achebe when I rhyme.
Am a GOD-guided missile, it’s the heat that I seek.
The Luga-flow Jet Li, it’s like a kung-fu flick, the way I kick.
[CHORUS:]
[VERSE THREE:]
(Zye X4) I did it my way [Aliri mawe],
So I think I need some Berry-on and Rozelle (eh).
Tonight, all my troubles seem so far away (yes).
I’ve seen more drama than Broadway (I did, man).
In the club, I need a needle in my record play (yes).
Damn, can you let a nigga sway (What’s up Mckenzie?)!
I refuse to lose like Mugabe in Zimbabwe (yes).
Leka nkole ebyange, bakole ebyabwe (hahaha)!
[OUTRO: ]
Rude bwai music!
Dedicated to my first love: Hip-hop.
Zye! And the fans, man. Yo fans, man. The fans.
I did it my way [Aliri mawe], I think I need some Berry-on and Rozelle, eh...
The Prophecy (series) is a Ugandan Sci Fi (Science fiction) fantasy web series produced by Acheonex based on the lives of the last living citizens of Uganda after an apocalypse was brought about by an ancient medallion. A genetic mutation occured among the last remaining human beings allowing them to exhibit superhuman strength and abilities. A great evil was awoken during the Apocalypse by the power of the medallion and it is up to the remaining Ugandans to fight for the human race. However, struggles among the survivors make it a battle for power and conquest... [Synopsis courtesy of Phizy Pwoch (Animator)]
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| AikoGraphics |
As a Cartoonist myself using the Penname "Aiko" at Uganda Christian University's Community Newspaper The Standard (since 2007 to 2015 and again from 2019) and also the Labels AruaCartoons (since 2014) plus LugbaraToons (since 2019), I took a Timeout to compile a List of almost 100 Cartoonists whose Artwork I have noticed in Ugandan Media especially Newspapers but also Magazines, Web and TV in no particular Order nor Ranking. If there is anyone I have left out who merges Lines and Colours plus Words (or Sounds) to create a whole new World, then please remind me or add to your own List:
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| B. Danny Toons |
Mr. Ras, also known as Ras Manyanga (born Charles Onen from Kitgum) is a Veteran in the Business, considered by many as the Best Editorial Cartoonist in Uganda, roger that! His Cartoons usually had male Animals with erect Private Parts. Nevertheless, he is funny and has produced a very huge Body of Work, Ras Studios. He usually dresses smartly, reminds me of the Congolese who pull their Trousers very high above the Waistline. I replaced him for only one Month between 26th December 2010 and 16th January 2011 at Sunday Vision where I had started by writing Letters to the Editor during my Campus Internship Years (thanks to Advice from Samuel Apedel); it was a Dream come true after submitting my Portfolio to Ras in 2005. He advised me to use Ivory Paper and Combo Pens for Longevity instead of Foolscaps and Ballpoint Pens plus make my Cartoon Faces less detailed. Photo Editor Jimmy Adriko was also an Encouragement when I had a Tryout at New Vision coz I could yap Lugbara with him...
Tumusiime Rushedge, other Name Emmanuel - born in Buhweju County of Bushenyi District (on 1st March 1941, died 2008), was a Ugandan Surgeon, Pilot, Novelist, Cartoonist and Newspaper Columnist aka Tom Rush and Old Fox (of the famous Escapades). Some Campus Fellows nicknamed me "Kid Fox", maybe coz I drew Cartoons in my Notebooks. Everybody knows Old Fox's Creation (alongside Ateker Ejalu) named Ekanya which means "Cheeky One" in Ateso, first published in the early 70s and still running, his Wife Rosie plus Son Junior; this Cartoon Family fascinated me in the 90s, I hoped they were from Teso coz I love Bateso. He also created the Comic Strip Bogi Benda while in Kenya...
Tess Rushedge, a humorous Daughter who took over her Father's Ekanya Comic Strip at New Vision. She detests Politics in her Cartoons and prefers mainly Family Issues and Relationships in Homes...
James Rwehabura Tumusiime, Proprietor of Igongo Cultural Centre, Founder of Fountain Publishers in 1988, arguably the Largest Indigenous Book Publishing Company in UG - famous for School Textbooks and Children's Stories, took over the Ekanya Character after 1976 when Rushedge went into Exile in Kenya...
Tom, works for the Teso Newspaper Etop in Soroti and its Parent Publication New Vision in KLA too...
Dr. Stone, I thought he was a Whiteman like the Ugandanised British Writer named Kevin O'Connor, but he's Black like me and raps Luganda fluently, draws his exclusive Sports Toons quite fast. Sometimes, other Cartoonists like Mr. Ras fill his Spot...
Kato FM, his illustrative Cartooning seems like it is all done in Pencil (basically he draws Shades of Grey) but dark enough to be read clearly, he shades very realistic Faces...
JR, funny, Luni, Jokes hahehihohu; I do not know who exactly he is but he has some rib-cracking Lines, almost like Proverbs...
Snoggie FM, aka Senoga or Snoggie's World who moved to the US, been around for quite some Time, colourful. He used to draw the "Leo Kivumbi" Strip too...
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| Luganda Toons |
Mozeh, Real Name Moses Balagade (died in 2016); my Mass Communication Dean of Faculty at UCU - Mr. Ben Bella Ilakut once advised me to draw thick Lines like him...
Ogon, aka Christoons replaced Mozeh at Daily Monitor as the Main Man and my or my, his Cartoons look crispy on Facebook, maybe because of the brighter Digital Surroundings unlike the somewhat light-khaki Hardcopy Newspaper, but still very well crafted Work. Atukwasize Chris Ogon won the Award for "Cartoonist of the Year" at the 2015 Uganda National Journalism Awards organised by the African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME). One interesting Thing I noticed in his Toons is the one Line Teeth Gap, simple but funny, seen! He also works for Ennyanda, another Subsidiary of Monitor Publications LTD. Ogon graduated in 2012 with an Illustration Major Bachelor's Degree in Industrial and Fine Arts from the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts. He worked as an Illustrator at MK Publishers, Longman Publishers and Mango Tree Uganda. At The Kampala Sun, he was the Editorial Cartoonist pennamed Atuk...
Ivan also does some colourful Work for Daily Monitor...
Spire Cartoons, by Dr. Jimmy Spire Sentongo, a very active Cartoonist who started at Weekly Observer in 2006, teaches Philosophy at Uganda Martyrs University and Makerere University. He studied Art until S4 Term 2 but felt he should use his Art Skills for Advocacy...
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| Jimelux TV Toons |
Stuart M., one of the Cartoonists who replaced me at the Standard between 2015 after I was let off and 2018 before I returned. He uses lots of Words but that is what I appreciate because many interesting Ideas can be compressed in one Panel. My Managers at New Vision used to tell me to let the Drawings deliver the Message with less (Letter) Words but Wordiness also adds creative Colour to a Cartoon and Stuart excels at that. Personally, I limit the Words by summarising but at the Back of my Mind, I fancy 100 Words in a Cartoon. Meanwhile, the Drawings can speak 1,000 Phonemes, no Problem...
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| PK's Toonbook Sketches |
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| PK Toons |
Harriet Jamwa, is an Illustrator and Graphics Designer who works at Andrew Mwenda's Independent Newspaper printed in Magazine Format. I almost had a Tryout with M9's Newspaper and might have worked with Harriet along the Way if I stayed but did not pass the Vetting, was told to learn more from Illustrators like B. Danny...
Phillip Nsamba, illustrates The Adventures of Babi & Bobi...
Benjamin Buhamizo, illustrates some Stories featured in Toto Magazine, quite impressive Line Drawing and Colouring. Meanwhile Benji, does "Naughty Benji" Cartoons while a Cartoonist pennamed Benjie draws The Senile, a witty Comic Strip which old People would enjoy. Not sure if it's the same Person...
Hyena, some of my Friends in Bukoto (a KLA Suburb) used to call me Hyena coz they heard that I was a Cartoonist, but am not the one who draws those Red Pepper Cartoons. In fact, why would I sleep with so many Women like that in real Life? One Wife is quite enough; Multiple Partners at the same Time, Fornication plus Adultery are very complicated with STDs, Abortion or Bastards and Hellfire waiting on the other Side of the Mountain. I hope it is just Fiction, Fantasy or Wet Dreams...
Loukman Ali, very talented 3D Animator and Filmmaker with amazing Face-drawing Skills. First met him on Bob Marley's 2009 Birthday while we were both being debriefed by Mr. Ras; it was a very special Moment coz I was running away from a Job Disappointment somewhere else. Ali has produced TV Commercials plus Films such as "The Bad Mexican"...
Andrew Cara, a down-to-Earth CG Artist on the Hill; he also teaches. He was one Year behind me at Kalinabiri Primary School when I was in P7, but he could still remember my Drawing Skills more than a dozen Years later. I need to keep improving and he surely inspires with his Animation Projects...
Phizy Pwoch, another talented Animator who has worked on Music Videos too...
David Masanso, Founder of Crossroads Animations in 2012 is an Animation Icon in UG with unflinching Zeal, actually started an annual Cartoon Festival and teaches interested Learners at his Central Business District Studios near Watoto Church (former KPC) just like Artfield Institute in Naguru. He was the First Black to study Computer Animation at the University of Swansea. "Imitate", his 4-Minute Animation about a Hat Seller, won an unprecedented Award at the 2009 Amakula Kampala International Film Festival...
Yunus Sebyala like I mentioned earlier, does Cartoon Animations...
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| Animation Progress on "The Adventures of Nkoza and Nankya (TV Series)" by Solomon Jagwe |
Richard Musinguzi is considered Uganda's Walt Disney, at least according to BBC. He created Katoto, a Rukiga-speaking Ugandan Original alongside Humphrey Agaba, Janet and the beautiful Thandi Abasa on his Team. They want Katoto to speak other Ugandan Languages also, hopefully Lugbarati too. Before Crane Bank closed, it had a TV Commercial where Katoto asked his Cow to give him 100 UgX so that he could keep it in a Savings Account, still vivid in my Memory...
John Paul Gremlin Musoke at Cartoon Leaf Channel also has some fine Portraiture Talent...
Kwiz Era, Illustrator and Expressionist Artist. His Studio is set up within Iguana Bar, Kisementi on Sturrock Road, behind Gapco Petrol Station...
Samuel Mukasa Kabali, founder of Tonda Animation is also an Inspiration...
Eugenius, this List would have been incomplete without me mentioning some Arua Artists I have come across. Eugene was among the first Artists to catch my Attention in A-Town while he painted a Mural for Mvara Core PTC next to Mvara Mission on Emmanuel Cathedral Road. He studied Art at UCU Mukono and has great Talent, truly a King Genius...
Ringo Andrua (Fly Graphix, Arua), first noticed his Portfolio via facebook but still impressive...
Pius Hoo, another Arua Artist with nice Mural Art...
Isaac Mugabi (Skyman) is a 3D character animator, mobile app developer, programmer, digital artist plus gamer who co-founded Pomp Motion Studios in Kampala. He graduated from Makerere University with a Bachelor's Degree in Art & Design plus earned a Certificate in Character Animation from Digital Tutors...
SPECIAL MENTIONS: Romero, Spanish Cartoonist who drew Modesty Blaise Comics, inspired the Word-Balloon Fonts I use in my Cartoons, just added a few Changes. I used to teach myself how to draw Humans seemlessly by studying his exquisite Artwork during my Senior 6 Vacation...
Falk, DePaul and Ryan (sometimes DePaul + Manley), create Phantom Cartoons from Australia relayed to Uganda through King Features Syndicate. I have been reading about this masked, generational Hero since the 90s...
Mort Walker, creator of Beetle Bailey...
James Gayo, his wordless Kingo Comic Strip is very hilarious; a Friend of mine wanted to turn it into a TV Animation...
Gado, famous Kenyan Newspaper Editorial Cartoonist across East Africa. Godfrey Mwapembwa spent 23 Years at The East African Newspaper before being fired for contestable Reasons including caricaturing the then Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete half nude in a languid Pose. JK was nibbling on Grapes from the Hand of one of seven Beauties who represented the 7 Sins that the Tanzanian Government had been accused of...
Frank Odoi, born in western Ghana in 1948 among seven Sisters, draws The Joker. In the late 1970s, he moved to Kenya to contribute to Terry Hirst's illustrated Humour Magazine Joe. He later inherited Terry's Position at Daily Nation Newspaper. He also helped develop and launch the XYZ Show, a satirical Puppet Show on TV. He died in a Matatu Ditch Accident on 21st April 2012...
Spiderman syndicated Cartoons from America...
Walt Disney, I think he should take Credit for the Mickey Mouse and Goofy syndicated Toons coz well, he invented them and they never died after his own Death in 1966, lived on into the new Millenium...
Zapiro, weird how I do not know any South African Cartoonists, it's almost like Apartheid of the Brain, maybe because they colonised our Minds in UG via the Audio-visual Box (Multichoice, KTV [Kids Television], BOP TV and TV Africa) but not Print Media. Nevertheless, the Best I know (Jonathan Shapiro) makes up for all my Ignorance and I only learnt of him through a Video and the Internet. He's probably the Finest on the African Continent. Kudos to all the rest I do not know...
There is also a Cartoonist for The Rwandan Amakuru with nice facial Illustrations...
(E)XTRA TIME/ OVERTIME: Animation is a burgeoning Industry in Uganda, and Animators especially 2D Animation Drawers are just Tradigital or Motion Cartoonists eg Blue Monkey, Creatures Animation (Makers of "A Kalabanda Ate My Homework"), LabRat Animations (who made the Music Video for "Wakayima" by COOPY BLY), etc. They automatically fit in the Uganda Cartoon Network; Book Illustrators do too, it's all about Cartooning Associates like a Cartoon Movement or Toon Nation. Cartooning resembles Writing and Comedy especially Standup; if you attack Individuals brutally, they may as well retaliate, but if you find a middle Ground that can tickle their Ribs, good for you. When Rema dumped Eddy Kenzo for Doctor Hamza, I wanted to draw a Cartoon of Namakula asking the "Sitya Lossi" Superstar - clad in a T-shirt emblazoned on "Mango" at the front - if they could play a Game of Adam and Eve; he would reply: "I don't think so, a little Bird told me you will give the forbidden Fruit to a Doctor", but held back because it was a very Heart-wrecking Situation for someone whose Music I admired, not certain that Joke would be tasty. Of course there are many other Scenarios to explore, but at a Y-Corner (Junction), you either go left or go right! I hope GOD grants Happyness to all the three. In 2001, Ugandan Cartoonists formed an Association called Satire Gang consisting of all Editorial and Humour Cartoonists in Uganda. It was formally affiliated to the international Cartoonist Rights Network that protects Cartoonists since they are not considered Journalists. Dr. Robert Russell, the Director was present at the Inauguration hosted by Uganda Museum. Freedom of Expression must not be abused, Self-Censorship is vital. Every Year on 5th May, four Days or half a Week after Labour Day (May Day), the World celebrates Cartoonist's Day. Then on 28th October, five Months later, the Earth marks International Animation Day set up in 2002 by the International Animated Film Association or ASIFA (abbreviated from its French Name: ASsociation Internationale du Film d’Animation). Maybe that Way, I will also get to know Who is Who? in UG. I cannot exhaust this List; I've done what I could based on my Limits of Knowledge but will keep updating it until I bypass 100 Cartoonists, if GOD wills. In Twenty20 during the Covid-19 lockdown, I had an epiphany that literally renewed my interest in making cartoons; I coined the word Ugatoons to describe the feeling...
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| Arua Cartoons (since 2014) |
Falk, DePaul and Ryan (sometimes DePaul + Manley), create Phantom Cartoons from Australia relayed to Uganda through King Features Syndicate. I have been reading about this masked, generational Hero since the 90s...
Mort Walker, creator of Beetle Bailey...
Sara, a UNICEF Cartoon conceived in ten different Countries. It took 20 months of research and development work involving 150 artists, writers and researchers from Eritrea and Ethiopia in the north to South Africa in the south (ie Malawi, Zimbabwe and the three main East African Countries). Sara used to appear in Straight Talk and Young Talk Newspapers. I loved the clean Line Drawing and Colouring. There was also a TV Animated Series with her Pet Monkey Zingo. The Sara Character is Proof that Cartoons can be used for Community Transformation...
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| Gayo Toons |
Gado, famous Kenyan Newspaper Editorial Cartoonist across East Africa. Godfrey Mwapembwa spent 23 Years at The East African Newspaper before being fired for contestable Reasons including caricaturing the then Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete half nude in a languid Pose. JK was nibbling on Grapes from the Hand of one of seven Beauties who represented the 7 Sins that the Tanzanian Government had been accused of...
Frank Odoi, born in western Ghana in 1948 among seven Sisters, draws The Joker. In the late 1970s, he moved to Kenya to contribute to Terry Hirst's illustrated Humour Magazine Joe. He later inherited Terry's Position at Daily Nation Newspaper. He also helped develop and launch the XYZ Show, a satirical Puppet Show on TV. He died in a Matatu Ditch Accident on 21st April 2012...
Spiderman syndicated Cartoons from America...
Walt Disney, I think he should take Credit for the Mickey Mouse and Goofy syndicated Toons coz well, he invented them and they never died after his own Death in 1966, lived on into the new Millenium...
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| Zapiro Toons |
There is also a Cartoonist for The Rwandan Amakuru with nice facial Illustrations...
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| Aiko Toons 2019 (Cropped and finally resized in Microsoft Windows Paint but Colours filled using GIMP 2.10 Software) |
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