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Xenson: Making elbow room for the arts

Samson Ssenkaaba aka Xenson dons a face mask made from a recycled car tyre. PHOTO | COURTESY

By  Bamuturaki Musinguzi

Correspondent

Nation Media Group

Xenson: Prime mover, trail blazer par excellence

Xenson, who was born in 1978 in Uganda. After high school, he won a government scholarship to study engineering at Makerere University but switched to his dream course in fine art.

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