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I remember visiting an art gallery in Kabusu during my A level. It was run and owned by a professor called Nagenda and I fell in love with what I saw,”

— Ritah Namayanja Kivumbi

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I knew it would help me pull off successful art exhibitions, sculptures, ceramics and pretty much almost everything to do with art too.

Coming into the gallery as a development worker and project manager, I had to learn art.

I looked through my closet and realised I had many outfits. I started using them to type crotchets threads, I could do wall hangings, print on clothes , I could sew.

I lost my sight a month after starting my own establishment, “ recalls Kivumbi who speaks while sitted, facing your writer. Her beautiful eyes light up the room, unfortunately they cannot be put to use. “ It dawned on me that my dream of promoting visual art was dying but not me.

A month later I realised my lids moved up as I looked in the mirror and I couldn’t see well yet I had no history of eye problems

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