The Kampala Working Group is currently researching the impact of British colonial governmentality and “imperial epistemologies” on the establishment and development of formal visual arts and visual arts education in Kampala in the first half of the twentieth century, and seeking to identify strategies to incorporate knowledge of this history into art and design education in Uganda in the present-day.

Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa is a research fellow at the University of Bergen in Norway. Kitto Derrick Wintergreen is Acting Head of Fine Art at the Nagenda International Academy of Art & Design in Uganda where he teaches visual communication and weaving.