Linda Nabasa
The actress and playwright Linda Nabasa was born in Kampala, Uganda. Since the founding of the all-women theatre company Afroman Spice in 2015, she has written plays and performed for the group. She has appeared at several festivals including: Bayimba International Festival of the Arts in Uganda, Maun International Arts Festival in Botswana, Zinduka Festival in Tanzania, MASA Festival in Côte d’Ivoire, Umbuntu Festival in Rwanda and the International Forum in Berlin. As a writer of children’s books and stories, she was invited to Cape Town, South Africa, to hold workshops and produce children’s books. Supported by the EU in Uganda, she is currently working on Tesa and Luuka a children’s book series on human rights. She is also working on a collaborative project A thousands Guns with a Burundian playwright. It is based on undocumented, publicly untold stories of the lives of murdered or imprisoned, asylum seeking artists of Burundi origin.