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Nandawula Regine Kabali-Kagwa is a Creative Technologist, Published Poet, and Founder of Mirembe Muse. She builds AI-powered applications serving African communities while honoring her Ugandan-Xhosa heritage. Master Gen AI Professional certified, she's redefining what it means to code with culture.

Nandawula Regine Kabali-Kagwa is a South African Creative Technologist building at the intersection of code, culture, and creativity. Born to Ugandan and Xhosa-Sotho heritage, she carries five clan lineages that inform her Ubuntu-centered approach to technology. A Master Gen AI Professional with an Advanced Diploma in Business Management (NQF 7, 15 distinctions) from Nelson Mandela University, Nanda has built 7 live AI SaaS products serving 300+ users, including AI-powered tools and Notion productivity systems. Her published poetry collection "Inside Her Roses" was featured on Showmax's Gqeberha: The Empire — she has performed at 5 live spoken word events across the Eastern Cape. As Founder of Mirembe Muse, she offers AI consulting, digital product creation, and is building Sanyu Botanicals — an African botanical wellness brand — for businesses across Africa.

Nandawula Regine Kabali-Kagwa doesn't fit in boxes — and that's exactly the point. Born to a Ugandan father and Xhosa-Sotho mother, Nanda carries the wisdom of five ancestral clans: Nsenene, Hlubi, Msimango, Thabizolo, and Tshawe. Each lineage gifted her a principle — lead through people, adapt and endure, heal at the root, build unshakeable foundations, share what you create. These aren't abstract values; they're the operating system behind every line of code she writes. After earning an Advanced Diploma in Business Management (NQF 7) from Nelson Mandela University with 15 academic distinctions, Nanda taught herself full-stack development from her home in East London. In six months, she shipped 7 live AI SaaS products, accumulated 250+ GitHub commits, and built a digital products business generating monthly revenue — all while performing her poetry at 5 live events across the Eastern Cape. Certified in Master Gen AI Professional, Prompt Engineering, Graphic Design, and Digital Marketing, she specialises in building AI-powered solutions for African SMEs, from chatbots and automation systems to custom AI agents. Her flagship apps include K53 Drill Master (50+ paying subscribers), Campus Compass (200+ students), and StokvelOS — proving that world-class technology can, and should, be built from the African continent. Her poetry collection "Inside Her Roses" was featured on Showmax's hit series Gqeberha: The Empire, and she has been interviewed on Madiba FM and TRU FM. Through her company Mirembe Muse (Pty) Ltd, she is building Sanyu Botanicals, an African botanical wellness brand honouring ancestral hair care wisdom with modern formulation, alongside a portfolio of Notion templates, AI tools, and educational resources designed specifically for African entrepreneurs and students. Nanda represents a new generation of African creators: technically excellent, culturally rooted, commercially viable, and unapologetically multidimensional. She codes. She writes poetry. She builds businesses. She refuses to choose.