Imani is a slice of three very different lives in one day in Uganda. Given that I couldn't call to mind anything about Uganda that didn't seem to be about Idi Amin, this was a refreshing and observational but not necessarily critical look at the dichotomised society of contemporary Uganda - town and country, rich and poor, peace and violence. Imani (meaning “faith” in Swahili) is a dichotomy in itself in that its slow moving pace gives the impression of not much happening while, in fact, the day that unfolds is a momentous one for our three protagonists. Our protagonists are Mary (Rehema Nanfuka) a young single mother who leaves her son in the village to work in town as a...
- 4/11/2013
- by Wendy Okoi-Obuli
- ShadowAndAct
Imani is a slice of three very different lives in one day in Uganda. Given that I couldn’t call t omind anything about Uganda that didn’t seem to be about Idi Amin, this was a refreshing and observational but not necessarily critical look at the dichotomised society of contemporary Uganda – town and country, rich and poor, peace and violence. Imani (meaning “faith” in Swahili) is a dichotomy in itself in that its slow moving pace gives the impression of not much happening while, in fact, the day that unfolds is a momentous one for our three protagonists.
Our protagonists are Mary (Rehema Nanfuka) a young single mother who leaves her son in the village to work in town as a maid in the Kampala home of a wealthy young woman not even a generation older; Armstrong (Philip Buyi Roy) a teenaged hip hop dancer who has travelled the...
Our protagonists are Mary (Rehema Nanfuka) a young single mother who leaves her son in the village to work in town as a maid in the Kampala home of a wealthy young woman not even a generation older; Armstrong (Philip Buyi Roy) a teenaged hip hop dancer who has travelled the...
- 10/26/2010
- by MsWOO
- ShadowAndAct
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