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Amanda Tumusiime is a Ugandan female painter, feminist, activist, art historian. She works as a senior lecturer in the Department of Visual Communication and Multimedia at Makerere University. She is also a senior lecturer withe the University of Rhodes.

Background
Amanda was born in Kabale the southern part of Uganda. . She attended Mary Hill High School for her advanced certificate before joining Makerere University where she obtained  her first Degree in Industrial and Fine Art and a Masters degree from the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Art, Makerere University. She obtained another Masters from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and later obtained a Doctor of Literature and Philosphy (DLitt et Phil) at the University of South Africa.

Professional career
She is a Senior lecturer at the Margret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Art in the College of Engineering Design Art and Technology MakerereUniversity as well as a Senior Research associate at the Department of Fine Arts, Rhodes University. Her research interests embrace feminism, art history activism and art practice. This multidisciplinary focus enables her to examine ways in which patriarchal perceptions influence the images through which young girls, grass root women, the deaf and the elderly are 'othered' in cultural discourses expressed through the medium of art and other forms of culture at the same time advocating for inclusion of these marginalized groups. Her research initiatives include Rethinking Art in Deaf Culture, 2016-present, Visions and Revisions:Rewriting Histories of Phenomenal Women in Kigezi (2017), Re-Engaging Grass root Women into Contemporary Global Economies for Empowerment(2015-present, Using Art to fund raise for Girls' Education: Laying Strategies to keep girls in School. 2016-present.

Awards
She is a presidential fellow of the African studies Association, a fulbright scholar, a fellow of the American council of learned societies and a fellow of the Carnegie next Generation of African Academics.

The African Studies Association as an ASA Presidential Fellow as a Fulbright African Research Scholar at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Carnegie Next Generation of African Academics.

A fellow of the American Council for Learned Societies-African Humanities Program

Post graduate merit award from the University of Witwatersrand.