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Omugurusi Festo Karwemera Mwene Karagare Kabure-Nkeecwere, now aged 95, is one of the brightest people I know. A great thinker and writer, he toils away at his desk, not for profit, but to save a language and culture, passed down to us by generations of ancestors, now threatened with erosion and potential …………
One artist that has enlivened my spirits is an old friend whose talent I only discovered recently. Pamela Kanyarutoke Loosfelt may not be a household name to the connoisseur, but she is one whose work immediately displays a healthy marriage of great intellect and handiwork. That she is producing her work inside Uganda is a bonus ……….
Enid Kacanda Kanyangyeyo gave my wife and I a beautiful cow. People from the cattle-keeping nations in Africa will understand what this means.
Crispus Mundua and I met in senior one at King’s College Budo in 1967, at an age where my political consciousness was in its embryonic stage. I was fascinated by his evident understanding of the political tensions that lay beneath the thin surface of tranquility at our school and in the country. Mundua was one of our go-to experts to help us understand the turmoil that was at home and abroad. He often spoke of leading a revolution, a concept that was more foreign to me than the scientific theories that I was beginning to learn.
To spend an afternoon with Mrs. Rhoda Nakibuuka Kalema, who was born at Mengo Hospital on May 10, 1929, is to be in the presence of woman of class and grace, one whose story is a combination of fortune and tragedy, of triumph and extraordinary …….
Mr. Enoch Lugimbirwa, a very dear brother in Christ, is a refined gentleman whose warm smile and laughter reflect his great love for humanity. Mr. Lugimbirwa, who has lived and served in Mburara, Nkore for over 70 years, is one of the pillars of the Anglican Church in Uganda……
Mrs. Katanywa. That’s all one needs to mention in Mburara, Nkore. No identifiers necessary. Everybody who is informed – and certainly anyone in his or her forties or above – knows whom you are referring to. A great lady, …….
Mr. Samwiri Bishaka thinks that he was born in 1916 or 1917. He may have been born earlier than that, for he recalls that he walked to Church when he was baptized in 1920,….
It was a joy to spend precious time with our dear friend, brother and mentor, Omugurusi Zabuloni Kabaza at his home on Friday February 9, 2018. Mr. Kabaza was my father’s teacher at Kigyezi High School in 1946, then my teacher and headmaster at Kigyezi High School in 1965-66, and my Kateerarume (the one who beats the dew) when I was seeking my fiancée’s hand…….
We fondly called him Chief. I still call him Chief. Gregory Thabiso Lebona, Professor of Anatomy at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (previously Medical University of Southern Africa), was my classmate in Medical School. He shares the fascinating story of his journey from Waterford in Swaziland to Makerere University and beyond. In his words: “End of term, December 3 1970, 10.30 am; the parking lot was bubbling with excitement as pupils exchanged goodbyes. My younger siblings, Veronica, Andrew & I were waiting for our mum to fetch us. The familiar 7-hour drive to Maseru, Lesotho would be my very last. With a lump in my throat …………..
One of the reasons I enjoyed my high school years at King’s College, Budo, Uganda was the very high quality of teaching, supervision and nurturing we received from our teachers. Among them was Neil Bonnell, an Australian who taught us English. He had a passion for teaching and a passion for life. Half a century later, he still ………..
Herbert Rheno Karugaba is a Munyakigyezi lawyer who was born 61 years ago at Masindi Hospital………
Chris Bishaka is a Real Estate Developer in Ibanda, Nkore, Uganda. Born in Bubaare, Ibanda on August 16, 1958, Chris studied at……
Herbert Byaruhanga is the Managing Director of Bird Uganda Safaris Ltd. and one of Uganda’s most distinguished tour guides. His company offers a variety of …..
Jackie Asiimwe, a lawyer, is the Uganda Country Manager of Wellspring Advisors, a US based philanthropic advisory firm. A Mukiga of the Baheesi ba Kinyagiro of Kabale, Kigezi,……
Tony Ekodeu is a Senior Managing Consultant and IT Architect with IBM Canada. He was born at Mulago Hospital, in Kampala, Uganda to ……….
Twesigye Jackson Kaguri is the Founder and Executive Director of Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project. He was born and raised in Kigezi, Uganda in the small village of Nyakagyezi. At a very young age he demonstrated an unquenchable desire to learn………
Hope Chigudu is feminist activist and a gender, organisational and development practitioner. In her earlier days in the women’s…….
Roscoe Katende is a senior anesthesiologist in New York City, New York, USA. He was born at Najera, Kampala to Mr. Hamu Katende and Mrs. Victoria Nalwanga Katende. His father was a local builder and his mother was a schoolteacher. They were both strong Christians who struggled to pay for his entire ……..
Jane Kavuma–Kayonga is a retired obstetrician who is now a full time novel writer. She was born at Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda, in a family of fourteen children. She attended…….
Gregory Mugisha Muntu, the President of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), likes …
Sabrina Bakeera-Kitaka, a Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics and Child Health at the School of Medicine, Makerere University College of Heath Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, exemplifies the values…..
Adoniya Ayebare, a husband, father, journalist, diplomat, peacemaker, down-to-earth intellectual …
Barbara Barungi is a development practitioner currently serving as the Lead Economist with the African Development Bank in Nigeria …
Thaddeus P. Manus Ulzen is Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, College of Community Health Sciences, University of Alabama School of Medicine in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Born in the gold mining hot bed of Tarkwa, Ghana ……
Cheryl Daniel is the Principal of Glen Cedar Public School in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. As a young girl, Cheryl always had a curiosity about people and what makes …
Marcel Wiradharma is a businessman who operates a number of companies based in Richmond Hill Ontario……
Joy Odera is a Kenyan, but she was born and bred in Uganda. Her early formal education started at Namagunga Boarding Primary School, followed by …
Juvenal Shiundu, a Naval Architect, is the Deputy Director/Head, Programme Management Section at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Headquarters …
Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa is a Visiting Fellow at Cornell University and Adjunct Professor at the University of Cape Town. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at New York University …
Barbara Anschuetz, a Registered Psychotherapist, is the Clinical Director of The Trauma Centre in Sharon, Ontario, Canada. Born in Toronto, Barbara was raised in a traditional family …..
Sam Kigongo-Mwesezi is a Ugandan-born surgical intensivist at Lincoln Hospital, Bronx, New York, USA. The son of schoolteachers, Sam attended Kako, Masaka and …
George Bhima is a Ugandan family doctor who grew up in Hoima and Fort Portal. He received his early formal…
Bbuye Lyamukanga was born and grew up in Entebbe, Uganda. Upon graduating from Makerere University, he was a Ford Foundation Scholarship Fellow at the Makerere …
Nancy Melville, a retired nurse, was born in Toronto, but lived most of her youth in a northern Ontario city called Sault Ste. Marie. She was the youngest in a family of three children, with one older brother and sister…..
Philip Odera, the Chief Executive, CfC Stanbic Kenya is a 21st century leader and a frequent speaker in the area of Leadership Development and Strategy Implementation …..
Susan Wakhungu-Githuku is the Founder & CEO of Human Performance Dynamics Africa, a boutique organizational development and human resources consulting firm based in Nairobi….
Ky’okusinga Kirunga is the Manager of Monitoring and Evaluation for the Stephen Lewis Foundation (SLF), a Canadian organization that works with community-level organizations that are engaged in the fight against the ravages of HIV/AIDS ……
Opiyo Oloya is an educator, researcher and published author. Born and raised in Gulu in northern Uganda, Opiyo became involved in national political activism for democratic reforms during the early 1980s……
Melanie Williams was born in the prairie town of Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada. She was raised in a traditional family in Pennant, a small rural farming community to the west of Swift Current where her…..
Patrick Tusiime is the District Health Officer for Kabale District, Kigezi Region in South Western Uganda. Patrick was born in Bucundura Village …..
