Another documentary series, Unsung Heroines: African Female Leaders, consisted of thirteen 26-minute films presented by Angélique Kidjo.
The series profiled women such as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Graça Machel and Wangari Maathai.
[1] Together with Imruh Bakari and lecturer Augustine Hatar, Mugishagwe cofounded the Tanzania Screenwriter's Forum in 2001, running a monthly scriptwriting workshop at the University of Dar es Salaam.
[1] Mugishagwe's feature film Tumaini (2005) told the story of its eponymous child heroine, who has to fend for herself and her two siblings after their parents die of AIDS.
The film received $400,000 of donor funding from the Norwegian embassy, who saw it as a vehicle for promoting orphanages for AIDS orphans.