Olum Lornah Afoyomungu is a feminist Ugandan lawyer, writer and researcher on human rights, gender and international law.
She holds an LLB from Makerere University and was the best-performing law student in 2017, during which she was honoured by FIDA Uganda at the 68th graduation ceremony. She has a post graduate diploma from legal practice from Law Development Centre, Kampala Uganda. She holds a Master of Laws in human rights and democratization in Africa from the University of Pretoria. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria.
She is currently a graduate teaching fellow at Makerere University School of Law and LLD candidate. She worked as a Programme Manager for Training and Curriculum Developer at the African Development Law Institute. Through her scholarly work, she focuses to ensuring that the voice of the African woman in international law surfaces and she also highlights the ways in which international law reproduces the marginalization of African women. She worked with CivSource Africa, which is a philanthropist organisation based in Uganda. She was furtured in the Youth Leaders for Social Change in South Africa on Youth Day.