A profile of Kigali’s Ivuka Arts Centre. Stephen Williams reports in the New African Magazine:
...on the analogues that are emerging:Ivuka’s founder is the artist Collin Sekajugo, who was born in Uganda and raised in Kenya, and has made community activism his forte, setting up Saturday art classes at three orphanages in Kigali, and creating a music and dance troupe for disadvantaged children called RwaMakondera.
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He opened the Ivuka Arts Centre in 2007 (Ivuka means in Kinyarwanda “to be born”), and it has received considerable international recognition in the intervening years.
Sekajugo’s approach to developing arts to serve the community has been replicated by several other artists who, having begun their artistic careers at Ivuka, have gone on to set up galleries and art centres in Kigali of their own – including the Inema Arts Centre, Bwiza Arts Kigali and Uburanga Arts. These all owe a debt of gratitude to Ivuka for Sekajugo blazing a trail that they followed.More here