Taga Nuwagaba: Healer, painter and planter — a custodian of Uganda’s heritage, health and hope

A collage of Taga Nuwagabaga’s paintings.

Photo credit: Pool

If you met him at an art exhibition, you might walk away thinking you’d just encountered a painter with an uncommon reverence for wildlife and culture. Meet him at a farmer’s expo, and you’d swear you’d found a bamboo evangelist on a green mission to save Uganda’s forests.

Stumble upon him at a wellness retreat, and you might mistake him for a herbalist, reciting testimonies of healing through leaves and roots.