Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire
Biographic Data
| ID | 6895231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bwesigye Bwa |
| FAMILY NAME | Mwesigire |
| SIGNATURE | MWESIGIRE B B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8391-3408 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What is Literary Activism? (Or Who keeps the housekeepers’ house?)
In August 2016, a four-day workshop brought together emerging and established African curators in Kampala under the label, the Arts Managers and Literary Entrepreneurs Workshop (AMLEW) to share knowledge and skills. In 2017, the name of the workshop changed to Arts Managers and Literary Activists (AMLA) workshop. This keynote address delivered at the opening of the 2018 edition of the same workshop, provides a historical context for the developme…
Creative Writing as Literary Activism: Decolonial Perspectives on the Writing Workshop
This paper explores the concept of literary activism by reflecting on a co-productive creative writing project run by the University of Bristol (United Kingdom) and the Center for African Cultural Excellence (Uganda). It considers how the space of the creative writing workshop opens platforms for decolonial knowledge production
Beyond the Afropolitan Postnation: The Contemporaneity of Jennifer Makumbi's Kintu
For several decades, literature produced by Africans has been read as postcolonial and nationalist. The study of the impact of colonialism on the colonized permeated African literary criticism from the 1960s. With the attainment of independence for many African countries, the lens changed to the search for the nationalist interests of the writers in their works. Newer African literary criticism contends that contemporary African writing eludes th…
Beyond the Afropolitan Postnation: The Contemporaneity of Jennifer Makumbi's Kintu
For several decades, literature produced by Africans has been read as postcolonial and nationalist. The study of the impact of colonialism on the colonized permeated African literary criticism from the 1960s. With the attainment of independence for many African countries, the lens changed to the search for the nationalist interests of the writers in their works. Newer African literary criticism contends that contemporary African writing eludes th…
Beyond the Afropolitan Postnation: The Contemporaneity of Jennifer Makumbi's Kintu
For several decades, literature produced by Africans has been read as postcolonial and nationalist. The study of the impact of colonialism on the colonized permeated African literary criticism from the 1960s. With the attainment of independence for many African countries, the lens changed to the search for the nationalist interests of the writers in their works. Newer African literary criticism contends that contemporary African writing eludes th…
What is Literary Activism? (Or Who keeps the housekeepers’ house?)
In August 2016, a four-day workshop brought together emerging and established African curators in Kampala under the label, the Arts Managers and Literary Entrepreneurs Workshop (AMLEW) to share knowledge and skills. In 2017, the name of the workshop changed to Arts Managers and Literary Activists (AMLA) workshop. This keynote address delivered at the opening of the 2018 edition of the same workshop, provides a historical context for the developme…
Creative Writing as Literary Activism: Decolonial Perspectives on the Writing Workshop
This paper explores the concept of literary activism by reflecting on a co-productive creative writing project run by the University of Bristol (United Kingdom) and the Center for African Cultural Excellence (Uganda). It considers how the space of the creative writing workshop opens platforms for decolonial knowledge production
Art (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Excellence (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Artistic and Creative Research (1 works)