Aisha Kigs

Aisha Kigs is a singer songwriter based in Cardiff, Wales. Aisha has been involved with the TuWezeshe Akina Dada fellowship programme in 2017 – 2018. She was also the creative director of G.I.R.L. exhibition, where she curated and showcased Wales’s young black artists through the theme of black female individuality.

Aisha is working on writing songs that elebrate the beauty and complexities of black femininity. Her song writing is inspired by her personal experiences as a dark skin black woman, having grown up in an environment where she felt she had to defend her own femininity against Eurocentric beauty standards. aiming to decolonise the black women tropes and spin them on their head.