Travels With Nakayima, Part 2: Bakka

28 March, 2009: Bakka, Uganda
This rock might not look like much, but for members of the Ffumbe clan it’s a historically and ritually significant place.  Hallowed places here are often covered by bark cloth or some other type of cloth.  This one is covered with olugoye, a generic cloth that women use for a variety [...]

Travels with Nakayima, Part 1: Stories of Place

I haven’t posted much lately, and that’s because I have been too busy traveling.  In late February, I attended an annual meeting of Uganda n’eddagala lyayo (Uganda and its medicines), Uganda’s oldest association of traditional healers.  The group entertaining the crowd that day was led by one Nakayima, a singer who has since become my [...]