Twasiima Patricia Bigirwa

Twasiima Bigirwa is an African writer and teller of stories, dedicated to the work of conjuring into existence new worlds. Her work is founded on undoing and reconstructing from the colonial imaginations and focuses on exploring ways that can actualise through.

Her debut book, ebyeshongoro bya Debra is a collection of poems written in runyankore and English that speaks to the times we are in, while weaving threads of how we can emerge with something new. She is also the host of the podcast, Another Way by Twasiima that explores themes of how we can move towards collective liberation. In 2018 she published Muhanguzi’s Daughters in the Writvisim Anthology, Odokonyero.

Twasiima has an LL.B. from Makerere University and an LL.M. from Georgetown University – Law Center