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The champagne flows, the bidders haggle and the unmistakable crack of the gavel sounds. The scene could easily be set at the dapper auction houses of London or New York. But this is the Circle Art auction in Nairobi, Kenya — East Africa’s only contemporary...

US President Obama visited Kenya last July to attend a Global Entrepreneurship Conference in Nairobi and possibly visit Kogelo village, the home of his late father. The city was spruced up and street boys gathered up and swept away as usual when a dignitary...

This picture of Noel Kipanda was taken in 2009. Noel Kapanda kept these paintings for memory. They were painted short after Lilanga´s death. It feels as if he was “hiding” the paintings and the truth about the history of one of most famous African painters...

Kipara Mzuguno is the youngest of the extremely talented Mzuguno family.
“I have also taught three of my children to do art and hopefully they will carry on with the business when I have left this world,” David Mzuguno told this newspaper in March last year at the International School of Uganda (ISU) where he was holding...