Susan Nalugwa Kiguli is an Ugandan poet and literary scholar.
Education
2005 Doctor of Philosophy English. The University of Leeds. Leeds, United Kingdom.
1996 Master of Surgery Literary Linguistics for Teaching English Language and Literature. University of Strathclyde.
Glasgow, United Kingdom.
1994 Master of Arts Literature.
. Kampala, Uganda.
1991 Bachelor of Arts Makerere University. Kampala, Uganda.
Career
As a poet, Kiguli to date remains best known for her collection The African Saga. As a scholar, for her work on oral poetry and performance. Kiguli has participated as a poet and reader in numerous literary festivals and conferences, including most prominently the International Literature Festival Berlin (2008).
The Poetry Africa Festival in Kwazulu –Natal, South Africa (2009).
The World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya (2007). And the Leeds Centre for African Studies, University of Leeds, United Kingdom (2005).
Kiguli has also contributed poetry for children to the collection Michael"s Eyes: The War against the Ugandan Child, an international collaborative effort "intended to raise the global awareness of the situation in Northern Uganda," particularly concerning the troubles caused by the Lord"s Resistance Army. Kiguli poem’s were also featured in Eye of the Storm: A Photographic Journey Across Uganda, with photography by David Pluth and Pierre-Francois Didek.
Kiguli has also been featured by Ultra Violet: Indian feminists unplugged, and by Department of English & Creative Writing, Lancaster University.
Praised by the poet and critic Alex Smith as "the leading intellectually astute voice in contemporary East African poetry," Kiguli was an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow for 2010, with her research focusing on "Oral Poetry and Popular Song in South Africa and Uganda: A Study of Contemporary Performance.” On the same general topic, Kiguli’s recent intellectual contributions include “The Symbolism of Music Festivals in Buganda: The case of Ekitoobero and Enkuuka y’omwaka,” in Performing Community (2008) and "Mapping the Dream of Cultural Continuity: Songs at Enkuuka y’omwaka” in Performing Change (2009). Alex Smith also found noteworthy Kiguli"s comments on A Hundred Silences, the third collection of poems by Gabeba Baderoon.