Goretti Kyomuhendo Net Worth

Background and career

Goretti Kyomuhendo is a Ugandan novelist and the founding director of the African Writers Trust and TUBAZE African Books. She is the author of five novels: The First Daughter (1996); Secrets No More (1999), which won the Uganda National Literary Award for Best Novel; Waiting (2007), published by The Feminist Press in New York and later translated into Spanish; Whispers from Vera (2023); and Promises (2025), published by Catalyst Press in the United States.

In 2014, she published The Essential Handbook for African Creative Writers. She has also written several children’s books and short stories.

Kyomuhendo holds a master's degree in Creative Writing from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, where she also taught Creative Writing. She was the first Ugandan woman to receive an International Writing Program fellowship from the University of Iowa. Her work as a writer and literary activist has received international recognition. She has chaired the judging panel for the Caine Prize and served as a judge for the Commonwealth Book Prize.

In 2019, she was named one of the 100 Most Influential Africans by New African magazine.

She is one of the founding members of FEMRITE, the Uganda Women Writers Association, and served as its first director for ten years. She was the first Programmes Coordinator for FEMRITE—Uganda Women Writers Association, from 1997 to 2007. She also founded the African Writers Trust in 2009, after her relocation to London, Great Britain, in 2008.