THE KADDU WASSWA ARCHIVE (Uganda, 2008-2010)
You stumble across the best stories by accident. In 2008 Andrea Stultiens was in Uganda, where she met Kaddu Wasswa, an old man who had recorded the sometimes dramatic course of his life in an extensive archive of photographs, texts and documents. Kaddu had grown up under the British colonial administration and lived through the years of Idi Amin’s reign of terror. Ten of his 18 children had died of AIDS. He had worked as a geologist, bookseller, shopkeeper, novelist, theatre maker, inventor and human rights activist – among other things. In collaboration with Kaddu and his grandson Stultiens is using the archive to unravel the story of a man and his country.
