Reconfiguring the Omweso board game: performing narratives of Buganda material culture
- Authors: Kirumira, Rose Namubiru
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145996 , vital:38487 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1162/afar_a_00460
- Description: My artwork titled Nakulabye, which is 4 meters long and weighs 440 pounds, is an intimidating sculptural replica of the Omweso game board (Fig. 1). The wooden sculpture, twenty times larger than an average Omweso game board, includes four cane stools to sit on during play. Its composition is derived from a human face, and it has thirty-two pits (8 × 4) in the configuration of a mancala board. This sculpture was inspired by my engagement with a group of men that I visited in July 2016 in Nakulabye, a town in an urban area of Kampala City, Uganda. At the Nakulabye Omweso Club, a shop veranda in Nakulabye Town, these men play Omweso and chat against the backdrop of a small television that mostly screens British Premiere Leagues. Observing their exchanges, which seem to be informed by moves on the Omweso board and reveal strong, clearly gendered power dynamics, I became curious about the performative place of Omweso as a cultural artifact of the Baganda people.
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- Date Issued: 2019
- Authors: Kirumira, Rose Namubiru
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145996 , vital:38487 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1162/afar_a_00460
- Description: My artwork titled Nakulabye, which is 4 meters long and weighs 440 pounds, is an intimidating sculptural replica of the Omweso game board (Fig. 1). The wooden sculpture, twenty times larger than an average Omweso game board, includes four cane stools to sit on during play. Its composition is derived from a human face, and it has thirty-two pits (8 × 4) in the configuration of a mancala board. This sculpture was inspired by my engagement with a group of men that I visited in July 2016 in Nakulabye, a town in an urban area of Kampala City, Uganda. At the Nakulabye Omweso Club, a shop veranda in Nakulabye Town, these men play Omweso and chat against the backdrop of a small television that mostly screens British Premiere Leagues. Observing their exchanges, which seem to be informed by moves on the Omweso board and reveal strong, clearly gendered power dynamics, I became curious about the performative place of Omweso as a cultural artifact of the Baganda people.
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- Date Issued: 2019
Reconfiguring the OMWESO board game: performing narratives of Buganda material culture
- Authors: Kirumira, Rose Namubiru
- Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146512 , vital:38532 , https://www.ru.ac.za/artsofafrica/latestnews/presentationreconfiguringtheomwesoboardgameperformingnarrativesofbug.html
- Description: As a Writer in Residence in the Fine Art Department at Rhodes, she is pursuing research on the omweso board game, which she has reinterpreted in her own sculptural work in recent years. As a sculptor, Dr. Kirumira has produced exhibitions such as “Faces” (1996) and “Personalities” (2010) at Tulifanya Art Gallery in Kampala. Her strength is creating monumental sculptures, and she has produced a number of public monuments and projects such as the sculptures for the Don Bosco Vocational School Chapel, Kamuli, 1997. Working under the renowned Prof. Francis Naggenda, she made the statue of “King Ronald Mutebi” at the Buganda Parliament and the work “Family” at Mulago Hospital Kampala. She also made the two famous sculptures "Mother Uganda" and "UNDP" at the former UNDP Headquarters, and has produced monumental sculptures in Canada, Denmark and China.
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- Date Issued: 2017
- Authors: Kirumira, Rose Namubiru
- Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146512 , vital:38532 , https://www.ru.ac.za/artsofafrica/latestnews/presentationreconfiguringtheomwesoboardgameperformingnarrativesofbug.html
- Description: As a Writer in Residence in the Fine Art Department at Rhodes, she is pursuing research on the omweso board game, which she has reinterpreted in her own sculptural work in recent years. As a sculptor, Dr. Kirumira has produced exhibitions such as “Faces” (1996) and “Personalities” (2010) at Tulifanya Art Gallery in Kampala. Her strength is creating monumental sculptures, and she has produced a number of public monuments and projects such as the sculptures for the Don Bosco Vocational School Chapel, Kamuli, 1997. Working under the renowned Prof. Francis Naggenda, she made the statue of “King Ronald Mutebi” at the Buganda Parliament and the work “Family” at Mulago Hospital Kampala. She also made the two famous sculptures "Mother Uganda" and "UNDP" at the former UNDP Headquarters, and has produced monumental sculptures in Canada, Denmark and China.
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- Date Issued: 2017
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