Jacques Maquet

I knew Jacques from his time in Ruanda in the 1950's when i was the Curator of the Uganda Museum. I admired his visions of Africa and ability to appreciate other societies. His work on Ruanda is perhaps his greatest legacy - a world disappeared but remembered through his words, photographs and museum exhibitions. He had a wonderful vision of the totality of the African experience and he saw Africa through his great understanding of other worlds towards the end of his career increasingly from...