Category: 25 Years of Treasures
This collection of stories from our history serves as a temporary landing page as we build the digital archive to support the Edirisa Treasures exhibition at Lake Bunyonyi. The articles below belong to the Edirisa’s Full Story compilation and include links to several video materials.
Our Stories:
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Edirisa Evenings
19mm, f/6.3, 1/5s, ISO400 I like simplicity in photographs, but sometimes simplicity can be found even in busy backgrounds. Here, the contrasting colors of the fire from the rest of the image immediately brings the viewer’s attention to it and the people sitting around it. This is perhaps my favourite image from Edirisa on Lake…
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Weekly Companion — Edirisa Anniversary Edition
I stood in front of the crowd in the packed auditorium in lady clothes, but what I was presenting I was damn serious about … It was 20 February 2001, 19 days after I came up with the window concept, about a week since I shared it with my classmates at the Institute of Ethics…
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Rwebandira’s 27 Hours of Your Sweet Memories
The end of this video gives me goosebumps. The words are spoken by Festo Karwemera, the Bakiga cultural warrior who passed away last year… Karwemera nicknamed me Rwebandira two decades ago, after knowing me for only a short time. Yet he couldn’t have been more prescient… He translated the name for me as a “trailblazer”…
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Pourquoi Gorilla Highlands & quel est le plan (2018-2020)
Organisation L’initiative de Gorilla Highlands (GH) est une collaboration officieuse du secteur privé, ouvert a quiconque passionné par le Rwanda, l’Ouganda et la République Démocratique du Congo. Il a été initié par Edirisa, une entreprise sociale du Lac Bunyonyi en 2011. Depuis lors, des nombreuses partenaires gouvernementaux et privés nous ont soutenus en publiant dans…
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Why the Gorilla Highlands Society?
Update, December 2018: This post has been rewritten in light of the formation of the Gorilla Highlands Society Uganda, Rwanda and DR Congo are all going to be successful countries and good neighbours one day. The history of Latin America, Asia and even Europe can hint at how the development stages go; it’s mostly a…
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What Is Gorilla Highlands?
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