Mulekwa was educated for most of his life in Uganda. He has a Diploma in Education (Uganda), a Masters in Scriptwriting (UK), and a PhD in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies (USA). Presently, he is a Lecturer at Makerere University, and also serves as a Consultant for Drama and Cultural Production at various levels. He began writing plays in his native Uganda focusing on the question of Agency of the ordinary citizen, for the ordinary citizen, by the ordinary citizen. While his academic concerns center on the ways in which the legacy of war within Uganda has informed Ugandan theatre, and vice versa, at a National as well as an International outlook. He is a Ford Foundation International Fellow, and Iowa International Writing Fellow. In 1998, the British Council and the Peggy Ramsay Foundation granted him a joint scholarship for the M.A. at Birmingham University, where he wrote the play A Time of Fire. Birmingham Rep Theatre commissioned and staged the play. In 1999 he was Chief Judge for the BBC African Performance Radio Drama Competition. Among other plays, his body of work includes The Woman in Me, The Eleventh Commandment, and Bond of the Knife. After teaching at King’s College Buddo (1990-1992), he worked at the National Theatre of Uganda for many years, 1992-2003. In 2005, he served as a Cultural Consultant for the award-winning film about the Idi Amin legacy, The Last King of Scotland. In 2015, he participated in the making of the forth coming Walt Disney Film about a Ugandan Chess playing girl-wonder, Queen of Katwe. In 2016, he served as a Judge for Drama at the Uganda Secondary Schools National Music, Dance and Drama Festival.
