Hawa Nanjobe Kimbugwe

Hawa Nanjobe Kimbugwe is a muslim Ugandan performance poet, educator and activist. Her work portrays her vision for a more just and compassionate world. She is an advocate for peace, women’s empowerment, social and gender justice, and she serves as a nutritionist and youth community builder.

Her poetry journey began in high school at Nabisunsa Girls’ School, it grew and was raised via the Lantern Meet of Poets’ Foundation, and she joined it in Kitara Nation where she’s a founding member and currently, Administrator. She has co-published a poetry anthology with her sister, Fahima Kimbugwe, titled “PHASES" in 2016 and has performed at various schools, book launches, workshops and conferences. She has also performed at renowned events such as the Bayimba International Festival, the Kampala International Festival and participated in the first ever East Africa Poetic Hour Battle, in 2018, in Kisumu. In 2022, she was the first young Muslim female poet to launch a poetry production entitled Tonight is Hawa’s Ours at the Uganda National Cultural Centre. 

As an extremely unapologetic oral and performance poet, Hawa uses her poetry as a remedy in a world where she has experienced unjust inequalities.