Twasiima Bigirwa is an African writer and artist born and bred in present day Uganda. She believes deeply in the power of words and language, and the use of both in shifting collective consciousness and imagining new ways of being in our modern times. She is immersed in ancestral remembrance and reclaiming lost parts of her (and our) spirituality as a means to our liberation. Presently Twasiima’s offering into the world is through her writings, poetry and other artistic mediums such as drawing and painting. She is on a journey to explore what else wants to come through her.

Twasiima spent much of her earlier life serving in different ways as a community mobiliser and organiser experiences which have shaped and continue to ground her. She believes in the work of movements that exist on the peripheries of society as crucial to our collective liberation. She has several year’s experience working within international development and carries those years as fuel in shaping her knowing of what else can be.

She is the author of three collections of poems; ebyeshongoro bya Debra,  okwetonganira kwa Stefie and ebirooto bya Josie.

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