Fundi Mdawala/Jak Katarikawe.(evaluation of African arts and criticism and interpretation of Ugandan painter )(Editorial)

From: African Arts | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Beidelman, T.O. | Copyright information

Your recent issue of African Arts (37, 2) contains an article and a letter to which I want to respond:

First, the article: In his informative and valuable paper on the Luguru woodcarver Fundi Mdawala bin Milongo, Edward A. Alpers notes that the woodcarver "sold his things in Dares Salaam through a European who carried them there and sold them in his shop" (p. 50). Alpers appears to have recorded this remark by Fundi Mdawala in Morogoro some time in 1972 73 (p. 44). I hav...

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