Kateete painted his uncle, Wasswa, and his wife at their home in the lakeside village of Kayabwe, in central Uganda, dressed up in the traditional barkcloth of the Baganda people. Kateete was fond of Wasswa, who took the artist’s mother to the hospital to have Kateete all those years ago. Kateete was educated at the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts, and this picture shows his classical training. Kateete gave up the picture nearly three decades after he painted it, after this collector convinced him of his plan to keep it in Uganda as part of a collection that could go into a national gallery someday.
