Goretti Kyomuhendo Appointed to Commonwealth Foundation’s Advisory Governorship for Africa Region

The Ugandan writer Goretti Kyomuhendo, Director of African Writers Trust (AWT), has been appointed Civil Society Advisory Governor by Commonwealth Foundation. She is one of five appointments, each representing a region: the academic Kalpana Kannabiran for Asia; University of the West Indies economics lecturer Marlene Attz for the Caribbean region; former Wellington, New Zealand mayor Celia Wade-Brown for the Pacific region; director-producer-actor Ajay Chhabra for Europe; and Kyomuhendo for Africa.

AWT Family,
Our director, Goretti Kyomuhendo has been appointed as one of the Commonwealth Foundation Civil Society Advisory Governors.

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Kyomuhendo is a founding member of FEMRITE and was its first director from 1997 to 2007. She has a BA in English Studies and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. She was an International Writing Program Fellow at the University of Iowa. Last year, she was listed among New African‘s “100 Most Influential Africans.”