At his home in Busomba Village – Kyaali Parish in Mpigi District, Zaavuga has a grass-thatched structure adjacent to a Mutuba tree (Ficus natalensis). Before we sit to greet him, his attention goes to ...

Old really is gold for budding designer Jose Hendo, who is reviving an ancient material for the catwalks of Kampala. She’s turning bark cloth, a fabric fashioned from trees in Uganda for over 600 ...

In Uganda, designers are trying to revive interest in a cloth people there have been wearing for the past 600 or more years. “Bark cloth” is made from just that, the inner bark of the mutuba tree — a ...