Ruth Kevyn Nakiguli is a Ugandan fashion designer who has forged her path with perseverance, sensitivity, and a deep connection to her roots. Founder of Wakabi Designs, she combines talent and hard work to transform African fabrics into pieces that speak of identity, history, and cultural pride.

Her style is born from the honesty with which she creates: without artifice. In her hands, kitenge prints are not just prints: they are childhood memories, maps of dusty streets, tributes to matriarchs who proudly wore each fold. She fuses the local and the global without asking permission or forgiveness, with an intuition that is not learned in academies, but is silently inherited, like a secret recipe.

Her collections are an exercise in cultural alchemy: the tribal and the urban, the sacred and the casual, embrace each other without conflict. She has taken Wakabi Designs beyond Uganda, building an aesthetic that cannot be explained, it can be felt. Like an embroidered poem, each garment invites you to look twice, to discover what cannot be seen.