CREATIVELY NANDA · THE SOUL ISSUE · 2026
EST. 2021

CREATIVELY NANDA

KUGOMPO CITY
SOUTH AFRICA
Nandawula Regine · natural afro haloed in golden light, red satin bodice

The Poet

INSIDE HER ROSES

On Stage

SPOKEN WORD

The Line

NINE GENERATIONS

Heritage

AMAHLUBI
& BUGANDA

Totem:
the grasshopper.

She also builds

MIREMBE
MUSE ↗

Poet · Performer · Founder

PUBLISHED POET · INSIDE HER ROSES · SPOKEN WORD · NINE GENERATIONS · THREE NATIONS · AMAHLUBI · AMATSHAWE · NSEENENE · UMQOMBOTHI & INK · THE ROSE, THE STAGE, THE CODE · MADIBAZ RADIO · TRU FM · KUGOMPO CITY · SOUTH AFRICA · A POET WHO CODES · MIREMBE MUSE, BUSINESS & TECH ↗ · PUBLISHED POET · INSIDE HER ROSES · SPOKEN WORD · NINE GENERATIONS · THREE NATIONS · AMAHLUBI · AMATSHAWE · NSEENENE · UMQOMBOTHI & INK · THE ROSE, THE STAGE, THE CODE · MADIBAZ RADIO · TRU FM · KUGOMPO CITY · SOUTH AFRICA · A POET WHO CODES · MIREMBE MUSE, BUSINESS & TECH ↗ ·

I · The poet

She learned to speak in two tongues:the language of systems,and the language of longing.
Inside Her Roses, a poetry collection by Nandawula Regine Kabali-Kagwa

II · The collection

Inside
Her Roses.

A debut collection on womanhood, longing, healing and the quiet ferocity of becoming. Performed on stages and broadcast on radio across the Eastern Cape, from spoken-word nights to TRU FM and Madibaz Radio.

Nanda performing spoken word in Xhosa beadwork with a drummer and keyboardist

III · The stage

The poem leaves the page, puts on beadwork, and finds a microphone.

Brewing umqombothi · KuGompo City

IV · The line

Nseenene · Tshawe · Hlubi · Msimanga · Thabizolo

Nine generations documented. Three nations. One woman making her art in KuGompo City.

Kabali-Kagwa · Kabombola · Kayenje–Butambala · Nsiisi–Busujju

Ggwe Mpagi, ggwe Luwaga; Nakimera muka Ssuuna.
Nseenene clan motto · Buganda Kingdom
Msimanga · Thabizolo · Nonkosi · Mlotshwa · Ngelengele
Msimanga clan praises · AmaHlubi
The full lineage
Nanda in a sunlit tropical palm garden, straw hat, golden hour

V · Between the lines

Beyond the stage and the syntax, a woman who tends roses, gardens, and the people she loves.

VI · The other half of the story

From zero to a fifteen-wing AI OS.

She wrote her first line of code in July 2025. One year later: eight live AI products, a personal operating system with fifteen intelligence wings, and real paying clients. This is the engineer's issue.

8

Live apps

3,000+

Commits

15

Distinctions

The last page

Let's make something
worth remembering.

Poetry. Performance. Collaboration. Conversation.