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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24 Hours to 25 Years — Join Us Online
This frame from our Treasures exhibition looks back a quarter of a century, to the moment when Edirisa — the mother of the Gorilla Highlands idea — was unveiled to an equatorial community on 20 February 2001. * * * That’s why we travelled to Lake Bunyonyi this morning — Diana and Sasha from Rwanda, Elie from…
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Edirisa Treasures: Our Cute Little Museum by the Big Gorgeous Lake
For over 20 years we’ve poured our hearts into projects, adventures and memories at Lake Bunyonyi — and for almost as long we’ve dreamed of a little museum to hold it all. This week that dream finally came to life. Andrea, an old friend and a true expert in the field, arrived with another cherished…
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Gallery Surprise in Kigali Leads to … The Home of Edirisa!
This is a postscript to the series that marked 20 years of Edirisa and 10 years of the Gorilla Highlands Initiative. Click here for Part I. When Antonio Chedrawy planned his return to Kigali, one special place from a previous trip was high on his agenda … The very first to arrive for the OMG…
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We Know What We Are (Finally)
• “Gorilla Highlands” is a tour company specialising in tailor-made offers in Rwanda, western Uganda and eastern Congo • “Gorilla Highlands Experts” is the non-profit wing engaged in tourism and non-tourism projects that boost peace, security and economic/social development of our region • these adjustments are a result of 4 years of considerations, introduced for the sake…
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Is This Where You Come In? (Gorilla Highlands 2018-2021 and Beyond)
This is the fourteenth and final instalment of a series that marks 20 years of Edirisa and 10 years of the Gorilla Highlands Initiative. Click here for Part I. A man at peace because his mission had been accomplished, I stretched my legs and listened to the faint voices in the night. A new year…
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Three Bunyonyi Love Stories (Gorilla Highlands 2016-2017)
This is the thirteenth instalment of a weekly series that marks 20 years of Edirisa and 10 years of the Gorilla Highlands Initiative. Click here for Part I. By 2016 the Gorilla Highlands idea had matured enough to call for a professional team in Kigali, and I was part of that group. I wasn’t just…
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Idealistic Without Being Naïve (Gorilla Highlands 2012-2015)
This is the twelfth instalment of a weekly series that marks 20 years of Edirisa and 10 years of the Gorilla Highlands Initiative. Click here for Part I.
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The Split (Kabale, Nkozi & Bunyonyi 2011)
This is the eleventh instalment of a weekly series that marks 20 years of Edirisa and 10 years of the Gorilla Highlands Initiative. Click here for Part I. When I woke up in a small room at Backpackers in Kampala one morning in 2006 I panicked. For the first time in my life I was…
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Lost Co-Founder Climbs Back in the Window (Kampala 2010)
This is the tenth instalment of a weekly series that marks 20 years of Edirisa and 10 years of the Gorilla Highlands Initiative. Click here for Part I. It was 2010 when Miha, in his characteristic adventurous spirit, approached me with a request. He wanted us to make a video documentary on how to transform Uganda’s education, from the…