Uganda, March 16 -- The third edition of the Annual Njabala Exhibition (ANE) titled Njabala: An elegy will run its course next Saturday having opened at the Makerere Art Gallery in Kampala on March 5.

The 2024 ANE explores grief through the artistic lens of Liz Kobusinge (Uganda), Lerato Shadi (South Africa/Germany), Helena Uambembe (South Africa), Letaru Dralega (Uganda), Charity Atukunda (Uganda), and Wambui Kamiru Collymore (Kenya).

While for some artists the grief is personal, for the others it is communal or both. Atukunda's four artworks-Joy and Sorrow, Dreamscape: A Meeting Point, Rituals of Purification, and Handle with Care-typify this. Joy and sorrow, made of charcoal, soil, mica, glue and glaze, depicts two sorrowful women wi...