User:Adeke Mercy/sandbox

Background

Amanda Tumusiime is a Ugandan academic, aged 47 years born in 1973 kaharo Kabale, Uganda, she went to Margaret Trowell school of industrial and fine arts- Makerere university and she was also a PhD student at the university of Witwatersrand SouthAfrica. she has two masters' degree in Art. a person who is definitely in tune with her community. some of her roles have been an interior decorator, lecturer, general secetary for uganda arists association, director of AFORD(Art for development) uganda

Education and academic career.

Amanda Tumusiime is a senior research associate with the NRF/DST SARChi research programme in Geo politics and the Arts of Africa, Fine Art Department, Rhodes University, South Africa, is a painter, feminist, activist, art historian, a senior lecturer in the department of visual communication and multimedia at Makerere University, Uganda and teaches Art History and visual culture. she obtained a Bachelors degree in Industrial and  Fine Arts (BIFA) and MA(FINE ARTS) Makerere University and MA(Arts) from university of Witwatersrand Johannesburg, in the Department of Art  history and a doctor of literature and philosophy(DLitt et Phil) in history of art in the university of South Africa. she is a presidential fellow of the African studies association, a Fulbright scholar, a fellow of  American council of learned societies and a fellow of the Carnegie next generation of African academics.