His scholarship pays attention to the imagination of freedom as a practice of abolition at home and in the diaspora. Broadly, his interests include critical race theory, popular culture, literature, cultural studies, digital studies, literary activism, law and literature, political economy, indigenous studies, African and African Diaspora Studies, among others. Bwesigye cultivated these interests while earning his LL.B. from Makerere University, Kampala, MSc in Security Studies from King’s College, London and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English Language and Literatures from Cornell University as well as teaching at Makerere University, Uganda Christian University, Uganda Martyrs University, Cornell University and Emory University. He also has learnt from practice, through his work on the Writivism Literary Initiative, the Ubuntu Reading Group, the Arts Managers and Literary Activists (AMLA) Network, Nyanja Football Club, the Flash Theatre Project, among other projects and initiatives.

His work appears in the Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies journal, Research in African Literatures, Journal of the African Literature Association, The Journal of Leadership and Developing Societies, the AFLA Quarterly, Africa is a Country, Review of African Political Economy, This is Africa, African Arguments, Chimurenga Chronic, The Johannesburg Review of Books, Africa in Words, among others. Bwesigye has edited anthologies of creative writing, and photography and at least one special issue of an academic journal. Additionally, he is a member of the Pan-African Activist Solidarity Collective (PAASC) which curates the Pan-African Activist Sunday School (PASS) series of popular political education livestreams on contemporary political issues in Africa and her diaspora. He has also facilitated the Oñgwaga•ä’ Native Writers Workshop in collaboration with the Berkeley Center for Cultural Humility.

He has earned the Cornell University NextGen Professors program fellowship (2022-2023), Cornell University Library Summer Digital Humanities Fellowship (2018), the African Leadership Centre Fellowship for African Scholars (2015 – 2017), the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Young African Scholars Award (2015), and the Do School Theatre Fellowship (2013), among others.