Linda Nabasa

Actor, author – Kampala, Uganda
Participant International Forum 2018

Nabasa Linda, born in Kampala, Uganda, is an actress and playwright. Since its inception in 2015, she has performed and written plays for Afroman Spice, an all-woman theatre company. 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 Ivory Coast, Umbuntu Festival in Rwanda. 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. She is currently writing “Luuka and Ttesa”, a children’s book series on human rights supported by the European Union in Uganda. Also she is currently working on a theatre collaboration project “A thousands Guns” with a Burundian playwright. It is based on undocumented, publicly untold stories of the lives of murdered, confined, asylum seeking artists of Burundi origin.