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Introduction
Amanda Tumusiime (born in 1973 in Kabale, Uganda) is a senior lecturer in the Department of Visual Communication, Design and Multimedia at Makerere University and General Secretary of Uganda Artists Association. she was also a member of Uganda Artists Association, University Women's Association and the Uganda Red Cross.

Background and Education
She first attended school at Comboni Missionary School in Rukungiri before moving on to Mary Hill high school in Mbarara. She obtained a bachelor;s degree in Industrial and Fine Art and a MA in Fine Art from Makerere University, MA in Arts from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and a Doctor of Literature and Philosophy from the University of South Africa

Personal background
== Tumusiime was a young girl when she lost her father and grew up in a family where gender roles were clearly defined. through school she pursed leadership roles as a sports prefect and secretary for the red Cross Society and latter represented her district at the 1992 international Red Crescent Movement youth Expo in Seville, Spain. == She has two children.

Grants and awards
She has a SIDA - SAREC grant from the Swedish Internation Development Cooperation Agency and the Swedish Agency for Research and Cooperation with Developing Countries under the Makerere University Staff Development Fund.

Received a prize from University Association of Women Makerere

She also has an award from the International Red Crescent Movement Expo'92