Bwesigye Bwa-Mwesigire
Dr. Bwesigye Bwa-Mwesigire is an assistant professor of Global African Literatures in the Department of Africana Studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills (USA). Prior to his current role, he was a Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute of African Studies at Emory University. His work explores the practice of African indigenous nationalism in the fiction of African immigrant women published after 2000 and studies the use of literature for political advocacy ends, as well as the establishment of free/independent eco-systems for the production, distribution and circulation of literature by people of African descent. His research builds on over a decade of practice as an activist, creative writer, curator, literary journalist, and organizer whose work has been published in magazines and online platforms such as African Arguments, Africa is a Country, Chimurenga Chronic, This is Africa, Africa in Words among others. He co-founded the Center for African Cultural Excellence (CACE) in 2012, through which he runs the Writivism Literary Initiative, the Arts Managers and Literary Activists (AMLA) Network and the Ubuntu Reading Group. He received a PhD and master’s degree from Cornell University’s Department of Literatures in English. He also received a Master of Science in Security, Leadership and Society at King’s College London’s African Leadership Centre. He earned his LL.B degree from Makerere University in Uganda.