Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire is a

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writer and lawyer, and the co-founder of the Centre for African Cultural Excellence (CACE), the organisation that curates the pan-African Writivism literary initiative. He is the author of a chap book, "Fables out of Nyanja", and a monograph, "Finding Foot as an International Court; The Prospects and Challenges of the East African Court of Justice". His work has appeared in literary journals, anthologies and academic publications, including the Chimurenga Chronic, Uganda Modern Literary Digest, Saraba magazine, New Black Magazine, AFLA Quarterly, the Kalahari Review, Short Story Day Africa, The Guardian, The World To Come and African Roar, among others. He is a regular contributor to the Africa-focused blogs: ''This is Africa'' and ''Africa in Words''. In 2015 he was recognised by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation as a Young African Scholar and selected for the prestigious African Leadership Centre Peace and Security Fellowship for African scholars at King's College, London.

Early life and education

Bwesigye was born in Kabale Hospital and grew up in Nyanja, in south-western

Uganda }), is a landlocked country in East Africa East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 10-11-(16*) territor ...

, close to the border with

Rwanda Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator ...

. He grew up with his mother, a teacher, at the staff quarters of the school where she taught. Bwesigye holds an LLB degree from

Makerere University Makerere University, Kampala (; Mak) is Uganda's largest and oldest institution of higher learning, first established as a technical school in 1922. It became an independent national university in 1970. Today, Makerere University is composed of ni ...

. He has in the past taught Human Rights at

and Uganda Martyrs University and Law at

Busoga University Busoga University (BU), is a private university in Uganda, affiliated with Central Busoga Diocese of the Church of Uganda. Location The main campus of Busoga University is located in the town of Iganga, approximately , by road, northeast of the ...

, St. Augustine International University and Uganda Christian University.
/ref> His youth work has been recognised by the Konrad Adenaur Stiftung Youth Policy Think Tank for Policy Alternatives, British Council Global Change-makers, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance, the United States Mission to Uganda Youth Advisors to Washington, Generation Change Uganda Chapter, the Mandela Institute for Development Studies and the Do School Theater Fellowship.

Published works

Monograph

Chap book

Short stories

*"Europe is not a country" in, *"Through the same gate" in,

in The Kalahari review 2013
"The goat and the meat"
in Saraba, 2013
"Spoiled town boy"
in The New black magazine, 2012

References

External links

"Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire On Writivism: Promoting Literature by Africans to Africans on the Continent""Producing and Consuming African Literature: Ernest Bazanye and the Uganda Case""Observer-backed Writivism returns ""‘Aid is killing African literature’"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire Living people Ugandan writers Makerere University alumni 1987 births 21st-century Ugandan lawyers People from Kabale District Academic staff of Makerere University