100 Notable alumni of
Makerere University
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Makerere University is 502nd in the world, 7th in Africa, and 1st in Uganda by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Makerere University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Paul Kagame
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Paul Kagame is a Rwandan politician and former military officer who has been the fourth President of Rwanda since 2000. He was previously a commander of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a rebel armed force which invaded Rwanda in 1990. The RPF was one of the parties of the conflict during the Rwandan Civil War and the armed force which ended the Rwandan genocide. He was considered Rwanda's de facto leader when he was Vice President and Minister of Defence under President Pasteur Bizimungu from 1994 to 2000 after which the vice-presidential post was abolished.
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Yoweri Museveni
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianmilitary personnelinternational forum participantdictator
- Biography
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Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa is a Ugandan politician, military officer and revolutionary who has been the ninth President of Uganda since 1986. His government is considered autocratic. After Museveni lost the election of 1980, he started the Ugandan Bush War which led to the removal of Milton Obote.
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Joseph Kabila
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary personnel
- Biography
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Joseph Kabila Kabange is a Congolese politician who served as President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between January 2001 and January 2019. He took office ten days after the assassination of his father, President Laurent-Désiré Kabila in the context of the Second Congo War. He was allowed to remain in power after the 2003 Pretoria Accord ended the war as the president of the country's new transitional government. He was elected as president in 2006 and re-elected in 2011 for a second term. Since stepping down after the 2018 election, Kabila, as a former president, serves as a senator for life.
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Julius Nyerere
- Enrolled in Makerere University
- In 1947 graduated with Diploma in Education
- Occupations
- translatorwriterlinguistpoliticianeducator
- Biography
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Julius Kambarage Nyerere was a Tanzanian anti-colonial activist, politician and political theorist. He governed Tanganyika as prime minister from 1961 to 1962 and then as president from 1962 to 1964, after which he led its successor state, Tanzania, as president from 1964 to 1985. He was a founding member and chair of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) party, and of its successor Chama Cha Mapinduzi, from 1954 to 1990. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he promoted a political philosophy known as Ujamaa.
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Apollo Milton Obote
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Apollo Milton Obote was a Ugandan politician who led Uganda to independence from British colonial rule in 1962. He served as the second prime minister of Uganda from 1962 to 1966 and later as the second president of Uganda from 1966 to 1971 and from 1980 to 1985.
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Mwai Kibaki
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Emilio Mwai Kibaki was a Kenyan politician who served as the third President of Kenya from December 2002 until April 2013.
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterplaywrightphilosopheressayist
- Biography
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan author and academic, who has been described as "East Africa's leading novelist". He began writing in English, switching to write primarily in Gikuyu. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature. He is the founder and editor of the Gikuyu-language journal Mũtĩiri. His short story The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright has been translated into 100 languages.
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Bobi Wine
- Occupations
- politicianboxermusicianfilm actorbusinessperson
- Biography
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Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, known by his stage name Bobi Wine, is a Ugandan politician, singer, and actor. He is a former Member of Parliament for Kyadondo County East constituency in Wakiso District, in Uganda's Central Region. He also leads the National Unity Platform political party. In June 2019, he announced his candidacy for the 2021 Ugandan presidential election. He participated in the 2021 election, in which, according to official results, he lost to incumbent Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, although he claims this result was fraudulent.
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John Sentamu
- Occupations
- priestpoliticiancleric
- Biography
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John Tucker Mugabi Sentamu, Baron Sentamu, is a retired Anglican bishop and life peer. He was Archbishop of York and Primate of England from 2005 to 2020.
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Benjamin Mkapa
- Enrolled in Makerere University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Benjamin William Mkapa was the third president of Tanzania, in office from 1995 to 2005. He was Chairman of the Revolutionary State Political Party (Chama Cha Mapinduzi, CCM).
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
- Occupations
- journalistwritercolumnistbroadcaster
- Biography
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is a British journalist and author. A columnist for the i newspaper and the Evening Standard, she is a commentator on immigration, diversity, and multiculturalism issues.
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Jaramogi Oginga Odinga
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jaramogi Ajuma Oginga Odinga was a Kenyan politician who became a prominent figure in Kenya's struggle for independence. He served as Kenya's first vice-president, and thereafter as opposition leader. Odinga's son Raila Odinga is a former prime minister, and another son, Oburu Odinga, is a former assistant minister in the Ministry of Finance.
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Yusuf Lule
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yusuf Kironde Lule was a Ugandan professor and civil servant who served as the fourth president of Uganda between 13 April and 20 June 1979.
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Kizza Besigye Kifeefe
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- military personnelphysicianpolitician
- Biography
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Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe, known as Colonel Dr. Kizza Besigye, is a Ugandan physician, politician, and former military officer in the Uganda People's Defence Force. He served as the president of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) political party and was an unsuccessful candidate in Uganda's 2001, 2006, 2011, and 2016 presidential elections, losing all of them to the incumbent, Yoweri Museveni, who has been president of Uganda since 26 January 1986. The results of the 2006 elections were contested in court, and the court found massive rigging and disenfranchisement. Besigye allowed an early internal FDC election for a successor president, which took place on 24 November 2012.
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James Kabarebe
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- military officerpolitician
- Biography
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James Kabarebe is a Rwandan retired military officer who has served as a Senior Presidential Adviser on security matters in the government of Rwanda, since 19 October 2018.
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Ruhakana Rugunda
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianphysician
- Biography
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Ruhakana Rugunda is a Ugandan physician and politician who was Prime Minister of Uganda from 2014 to 2021. He held a long series of cabinet posts under President Yoweri Museveni beginning in 1986. He served as Uganda's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 1996, and Minister of Internal Affairs from 2003 to 2009. Subsequently, he was Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2009 to 2011 and Minister of Health from 2013 to 2014.
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Anne Kansiime
- Occupations
- actorwritertelevision producer
- Biography
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Kansiime Kubiryaba Anne and popularly known as Anne Kansiime, is a Ugandan entertainer, comedian, and actress. She has been referred to as "Africa's Queen of Comedy" by some African media outlets.
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Robert Ouko
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Robert Ouko was a Kenyan politician who served two spells as Foreign Minister of Kenya: from 1979 to 1983 and from 1988 to 1990. Ouko served in the government of Kenya from the colonial period through the presidencies of Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi. He was a member of the National Assembly for Kisumu and a cabinet minister, rising to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation by 1990. On 13 February 1990, Ouko was found murdered in Muhoroni; the assassination, perhaps the most intriguing in Kenyan history, remains unsolved.
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Amama Mbabazi
- Enrolled in Makerere University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John Patrick Amama Mbabazi, SC is a Ugandan politician who served as the ninth Prime Minister of Uganda from 24 May 2011 to 19 September 2014. He played an instrumental role in Uganda's protracted liberation struggle from several tyrannical governments (1972-1986) and is a founding member of the National Resistance Movement, the ruling political party in Uganda.
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Jacob Oulanyah
- Occupations
- politicianlawyereconomist
- Biography
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Jacob L'Okori Oulanyah was a Ugandan agricultural economist, lawyer, and politician, who served as the Speaker of the 11th Parliament of Uganda from 2021 to 2022. He was elected to that position on 24 May 2021, after defeating his tenacious rival the then incumbent Speaker Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga. He served as Deputy Speaker of the Ugandan parliament, from May 2011 until May 2021. Oulanyah was also the member of parliament representing the Omoro County constituency, Omoro District, Acholi sub-region, in the Uganda's Northern Region.
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David Muhoozi
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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General David Rubakuba Muhoozi is a Ugandan Military Officer and Lawyer. He currently serves as the Minister of State for Internal Affairs. He was appointed to that position on 6 June 2021, replacing Obiga Kania.
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Seif Sharif Hamad
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Seif Sharif Hamad was a Tanzanian politician who served as the First Vice President of Zanzibar and as Party Chairman of ACT Wazalendo.
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Rebecca Kadaga
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga is a Ugandan lawyer and politician who served as the Speaker of the Parliament of Uganda from 19 May 2011 until 21 May 2021. She currently serves as the First Deputy Prime Minister of Uganda. She concurrently serves as Minister for East African Community Affairs, in the Cabinet of Uganda.
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Sam Kutesa
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Sam Kahamba Kutesa is a Ugandan politician, businessman and lawyer involved in several corruption cases. By the marriage of his daughter Charlotte Kutesa Muhoozi with Muhoozi he is part of the inner circle of president Museveni. Kutesa was the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet of Uganda, a position he held from 13 January 2005 and maintained through three cabinet reshuffles until May 2021. He was also the elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Mawogola County in Sembabule District. He was the President of the United Nations General Assembly during its 69th session in 2014–2015.
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Mukhisa Kituyi
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi is a Kenyan politician who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UNCTAD from September 2013-February 2021 when he stepped down for his presidential ambitions, Immediately prior, Kituyi was Chief Executive of the Kenya Institute of Governance, based in Nairobi. He served as Kenya's Minister of Trade and Industry from 2002 to 2007. He is currently an aspirant for the Kenyan presidency in 2022.
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Benedicto Kiwanuka
- Occupations
- military personnelpoliticianjudge
- Biography
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Benedicto Kagimu Mugumba Kiwanuka was the first prime minister of Uganda, a leader of the Democratic Party, and one of the persons that led the country in the transition between colonial British rule and independence. He was murdered by Idi Amin's regime in 1972.
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Miria Obote
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Miria Obote is a Ugandan politician who was first lady of Uganda, and widow of former Prime Minister and President Milton Obote. She was a candidate in the 2006 Ugandan general election.
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Jessica Alupo
- Occupations
- military personnelvice presidentpoliticianteacher
- Biography
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Jessica Rose Epel Alupo, commonly known as Jessica Alupo, is the ninth and current vice president of Uganda since 2021. She is a Ugandan politician, educator, and former military officer. She previously served in the cabinet of Uganda as minister of education between 2011 and 2016. She is also an elected member of parliament as Katakwi District's women's representative.
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Apolo Nsibambi
- Years
- 1940-2019 (aged 79)
- Enrolled in Makerere University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in economics
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Apolo Robin Nsibambi was a Ugandan academic and politician who served as the 8th Prime Minister of Uganda from 5 April 1999 until 24 May 2011, when Amama Mbabazi succeeded him.
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Edward Ssekandi
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi is a Ugandan politician and lawyer who served as the eighth vice president of Uganda from 24 May 2011 to 21 June 2021. Prior to that, he served as the Speaker of Parliament from 2001 to 2011. He served as Member of Parliament for Bukoto County Central constituency from 1996 to 2021.
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Hamis Kiggundu
- Occupations
- non-fiction writerbusinesspersonwriter
- Biography
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Hamis Kiggundu, commonly known as Ham, is a Ugandan businessman, investor, real estate and property developer, philanthropist, author and lawyer.
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Stella Nyanzi
- Occupations
- human rights activistresearcher
- Biography
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Stella Nyanzi is a Ugandan human rights advocate, poet, medical anthropologist, feminist, queer rights advocate, and scholar of sexuality, family planning, and public health. She was arrested in 2017 for insulting the Ugandan president. In January 2022, she was accepted to live in Germany on a writers-in-exile programme run by PEN Germany, with her three children.
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Anita Among
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Anita Annet Among is a Ugandan accountant, lawyer and politician who is the Speaker of the 11th Parliament of Uganda since 2022. She also concurrently serves as the elected member of parliament for the Bukedea District Women Constituency, the same position she held in the 10th Parliament (2016–2021). She was in FDC party before she joined the ruling NRM where she was voted as the Deputy Speaker of the 10th Parliament. She is named in the torture complaint against the Ugandan government that was submitted with the International Criminal Court.
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Mugisha Muntu
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary personnel
- Biography
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Gregory Mugisha Muntuyera, commonly referred to as Mugisha Muntu, is a Ugandan politician and retired military officer. He is the current President of the Alliance for National Transformation (ANT), a political party he founded in March 2019. He previously served as the President of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), an opposition political party, from 2012 to 2017. In September 2018, General Muntu parted ways with the FDC citing ideological differences with the new FDC leadership of Hon.Patrick Oboi Amuriat. On 27 September 2018 he announced in a televised press conference that he and some other leaders had begun what he called The New Formation which later became the ANT.
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Specioza Kazibwe
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- politiciansurgeon
- Biography
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Speciosa Naigaga Wandira Kazibwe, is a Ugandan politician and first female vice president in Africa. She was the sixth vice president of Uganda from 1994 to 2003, making her the first woman in Africa to hold the position of vice-president of a sovereign nation. Dr. Speciosa Kazibwe is also a Ugandan surgeon. She is also referred to as "Nnalongo", because of her twins. In August 2013, she was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa.
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Norbert Mao
- Enrolled in Makerere University
- Studied in 1988-1991
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Norbert Mao is a Ugandan political activist and lawyer. He has been president of the Democratic Party since 2010, three time presidential candidate and he served as the Local Council 5 chairman for Gulu District. He is the current minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs in the Ugandan government, an office he assumed on 21 July 2022. He was appointed to this position by Yoweri Museveni, the president of the Republic of Uganda. This appointment drew immense criticism from the Democratic Party, an opposition party he is currently serving as president. It was seen as a move by President Museveni to tame the Party and clip its wings to criticize his government.
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Andrew Mwenda
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Andrew Mwenda is a Ugandan print, radio and television journalist, and the founder and owner of The Independent, a current affairs newsmagazine. He was previously the political editor of The Daily Monitor, a Ugandan tabloid, and was the presenter of Andrew Mwenda Live on KFM Radio in Kampala, Uganda's capital city.
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Micere Githae Mugo
- Occupations
- university teacherpoetplaywrightphilosopheressayist
- Biography
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Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo was a Kenyan professor, playwright, author, activist and poet. She was a literary critic and professor of Literature, Creative Writing and Research Methods in the Department of African American Studies at Syracuse University. She was forced into exile in 1982 from Kenya during the Daniel Arap Moi dictatorship for activism and moved to teach in the United States, and later Zimbabwe. She taught Orature, Literature, and Creative Writing.
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Jennifer Musisi
- Occupations
- international forum participantlawyer
- Biography
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Jennifer Semakula Musisi is a Ugandan lawyer and public administrator. She is the first City Leader in Residence at Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative at the Ash Center of the Harvard Kennedy School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. She was appointed to this position in January 2019.
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Cleopa Msuya
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Cleopa David Msuya is a former Prime Minister of Tanzania from 7 November 1980 to 24 February 1983 and again from 7 December 1994 to 28 November 1995.
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Jane Aceng
- Occupations
- politicianpediatrician
- Biography
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Jane Ruth Aceng is a Ugandan pediatrician and politician. She is the Minister of Health in the Cabinet of Uganda. She was appointed to that position on 6 June 2016. Before that, from June 2011 until June 2016, she served as the Director General of Medical Services in the Ugandan Ministry of Health.
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Flavia Tumusiime
- Occupations
- actortelevision personalityradio personality
- Biography
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Flavia Tumusiime is a Ugandan actress, radio and television host, voice-over artist, emcee and author of 30 Days of Flavia. She presents a mid-morning radio show on 91.3 Capital FM radio in Kampala, a former co-host of Morning @ NTV on NTV Uganda where she also doubles as a news anchor on NTV Tonight news and is a VJ for Channel O. She played the role of Kamali Tenywa (lead role) in Nana Kagga's television series, Beneath The Lies - The Series from 2014 to 2016 and has co-hosted the Guinness Football Challenge.
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Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula was a Zambian nationalist leader involved in the movement for the independence of Northern Rhodesia, as Zambia was known until the end of British rule in 1964. He was born in the village of Maala in the Namwala district of Zambia's southern province. He was the youngest of three children and the only son.
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Kahinda Otafiire
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary personnel
- Biography
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Major General Kahinda Otafiire is a Ugandan politician and retired military officer. He is the current Minister of Internal Affairs in the Cabinet of Uganda, since 8 June 2021.
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Julia Sebutinde
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Julia Sebutinde is a Ugandan jurist. She is currently serving her second term on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) following her re-election on 12 November 2020. She also is the current chancellor of Muteesa I Royal University, a university owned by Buganda kingdom. She has been a judge on the court since March 2012. She is the first African woman to sit on the ICJ. Before being elected to the ICJ, Sebutinde was a judge of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. She was appointed to that position in 2007. On February 6, 2024, Julia Sebutinde was elected Vice-President of the International Court of Justice.
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Richard Sezibera
- Occupations
- physicianpoliticianinternational forum participantdiplomat
- Biography
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Richard Sezibera is a Rwandan medical doctor, diplomat and politician, who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 18 October 2018 until November 4, 2019. He replaced Louise Mushikiwabo. He was replaced by Vincent Biruta on November 4, 2019.
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Bethwell Allan Ogot
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Bethwell Allan Ogot is a Kenyan historian and eminent African scholar who specialises in African history, research methods and theory. One of his works starts by saying that "to tell the story of a past so as to portray an inevitable destiny is, for humankind, a need as universal as tool-making. To that extent, we may say that a human being is, by nature, historicus.
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Paul Ssemogerere
- Years
- 1932-2022 (aged 90)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere was a Ugandan politician who was the leader of the Democratic Party for 25 years, and one of the main players in Ugandan politics until his retirement in 2005.
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Gilbert Bukenya
- Occupations
- politicianpublic health scientistuniversity teacherphysicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Gilbert Balibaseka Bukenya is a Ugandan politician and physician who was the seventh vice president of Uganda from 23 May 2003 until 23 May 2011. He has represented the constituency of Busiro County North in the Ugandan Parliament since 1996. His autobiography, Intricate Corridors to Power, was published in 2008.
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Sylvia Tamale
- Occupations
- lawyercivil rights advocatewriteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Sylvia Rosila Tamale is a Ugandan academic, and human rights activist in Uganda. She was the first woman dean in the law faculty at Makerere University, Uganda.
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Amelia Kyambadde
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Amelia Anne Kyambadde is a female Ugandan Administrator with experience in Public Sector Management. She has a philanthropic spirit and has been elected in several Political leadership positions. Her expertise in trade consultancy emanates from her business training and experience in the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives. She is renowned for her strong advocacy in the empowerment of women and youth through her NGO Twezimbe Development Foundation. Her deep appreciation for conservation of nature in response to climate change compelled her to establish Ensulo Haven (U) Limited which is an eco-tourism project. Amelia is a Vice Chairperson of Fresh Handling Ltd – a major exporter of fresh commodities.
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Otieno Kajwang
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Gerald Otieno Kajwang was a Kenyan politician. He belonged to the Orange Democratic Movement and was elected to represent the Mbita Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya in the December 2007 parliamentary election. In the bitterly contested 2013 elections, Otieno Kajwang was elected to represent Homa Bay County in the Senate of Kenya. Upon his death, his brother, Moses Otieno Kajwang won the election to succeed him in Parliament, representing Homa Bay.
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Henry Tayali
- Occupations
- storytellerpainterprintmakersculptorlecturer
- Biography
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Henry Nkole Tayali was a multi-lingual Zambian painter, sculptor, printmaker, raconteur and lecturer. He has been described as Zambia's most famous painter.
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Mohammed Hamid
- Biography
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Mohammed Hamid is a Ugandan businessman. He is the owner and chairman of the executive board of directors for the Aya Group.
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GNL Zamba
- Occupations
- rapper
- Biography
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GNL Zamba, born Ernest Nsimbi, is a Ugandan hip hop artist who is credited with bringing rap and Lugaflow style of music to mainstream radio and other media in Uganda.
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Maria Mutagamba
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Maria Emily Lubega Mutagamba was a Ugandan economist and politician. She was the minister of tourism, wildlife and antiquities in the Ugandan Cabinet from 15 August 2012 until 6 June 2016.
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Betty Oyella Bigombe
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Betty Oyella Bigombe, also known as Betty Atuku Bigombe, is an Ugandan politician who served as the Senior Director for Fragility, Conflict, and Violence at the World Bank from 2014 to 2017. She was appointed in June 2014. From May 2011 until June 2014, she was the State Minister for Water Resources in the Uganda Cabinet. She was appointed on 27 May 2011. She concurrently served as the elected Member of Parliament (MP), representing Amuru District Women's Constituency. She resigned from the two appointments on 1 June 2014.
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Joy Doreen Biira
- Occupations
- presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Joy Doreen Biira is a Ugandan journalist and communications consultant. She describes herself as a "career journalist, communications and digital strategist, moderator, speaker, media trainer, brand influencer and mum". Her headline title is "Creatives Director" at Africa Speaks Limited, a private Ugandan company, limited by shares, which was incorporated on 2 October 2006.
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O'dell Owens
- Occupations
- coroneracademic administratormedical directornonprofit administratorobstetrician-gynecologist
- Biography
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O'dell Moreno Owens was an American physician, public health official, educator, and health advocate. He was nationally known for his work in in vitro fertilization.
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Bart Magunda Katureebe
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Bart Magunda Katureebe is a Ugandan judge and the former Chief Justice of Uganda. He was appointed to that position on 5 March 2015. Before that, he was a justice of the Supreme Court of Uganda.
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David Mwiraria
- Years
- 1938-2017 (aged 79)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David Mwiraria (3 September 1938 – 13 April 2017) was the Minister for Environment and Natural Resources previously Finance Minister of Kenya until December 2007 when Kenya held its General Elections. Running for re election on a Party of National Unity ticket, defending his seat as Member of parliament for North Imenti Constituency, he was defeated by Silas Muriuki, who was running on a Mazingira Green Party of Kenya ticket.
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Pamela Mboya
- Occupations
- political activist
- Biography
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Pamela Mboya was a Kenyan political activist and diplomat, the wife of Tom Mboya the Kenyan trade unionist, educationist, Pan Africanist, author, independence activist, Cabinet Minister and one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Kenya.
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Moses Magogo Hassim
- Enrolled in Makerere University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
- Occupations
- Federation of Uganda Football Associations
- Biography
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Moses Magogo Hassim is a Ugandan sports administrator and politician. He is the current president of the Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA), and Executive member of Confederation of African Football (CAF). In the 2021 general election he was elected to Parliament, representing Budiope East in Buyende District, for the National Resistance Movement.
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Winnie Kiiza
- Enrolled in Makerere University
- Studied in 2019-2021
- Occupations
- politiciansecretary
- Biography
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Winifred Kiiza is a Ugandan teacher and politician, who served as the Leader of Opposition in the Ugandan Parliament, from May 2016 until August 2018. She was replaced as Leader of Opposition by Betty Aol Ochan.
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Usama Mukwaya
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriteractorfilm producerpresenter
- Biography
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Usama "Osam" Nyanzi Mukwaya (born 12 December 1989) is a Ugandan screenwriter, film director, producer, actor and former television host. His major films include Bala Bala Sese, directed by Lukyamuzi Bashir with which Mukwaya is credited as the film's writer and producer. The film was nominated at the 12th Africa Movie Academy Awards for Best Film in an African Language.
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Crispus Kiyonga
- Enrolled in Makerere University
- Studied in 1973-1978
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Crispus Walter Kiyonga, whose first name is sometimes spelled Chrispus, is a Ugandan physician, politician and diplomat, who serves as Uganda's Ambassador to China, based in Beijing. He previously served as the Minister of Defence in the Cabinet of Uganda from 2006 to 2016.
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Irene Muloni
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- politicianengineer
- Biography
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Irene Nafuna Muloni is a Ugandan electrical engineer, businesswoman and politician and also a Senior Presidential Advisor to Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. She was previously Cabinet Minister for Energy and Minerals in the Ugandan Cabinet until December 2019, serving from 27 May 2011. She retained her position in the new cabinet after the 2016 national elections. She served as the elected Member of Parliament for Bulambuli District Women's Representative, from 2011 until 2016 when she lost her seat to Independent candidate; Sarah Wekomba. She again regained her seat after the 2021 general elections.
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Peter Nazareth
- Occupations
- literary critic
- Biography
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Peter Nazareth is a Ugandan-born literary critic and writer of fiction and drama.
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Elioda Tumwesigye
- Occupations
- researcherphysicianpolitician
- Biography
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Elioda Tumwesigye is a Ugandan politician, physician, and epidemiologist who has served as minister of science, technology and innovation in the cabinet of Uganda since June 2016. From March 2015 until June 2016, he served as the minister of health.
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Aloisea Inyumba
- Years
- 1964-2012 (aged 48)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Aloisea Inyumba was a Rwandan politician, who was the country's Minister for Gender and Family Promotion and as executive secretary of the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission.
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Benon Biraaro
- Enrolled in Makerere University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in political science
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary personnel
- Biography
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Benon Biraaro was a Ugandan military officer and a high-ranking commander in the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF). While still in the active military, he served as the commandant of the Uganda Senior Command and Staff College in Kimaka, Jinja. In 2016, he ran (unsuccessfully) for President of Uganda on behalf of his agrarian Farmers Party of Uganda.
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Mary Karooro Okurut
- Occupations
- politicianwriter
- Biography
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Mary Busingye Karoro Okurut, more commonly known as Mary Karoro Okurut, is a Ugandan educator, author and politician. She is the former Cabinet Minister in Charge of General Duties in the Office of the Prime Minister, in the Ugandan Cabinet. She was appointed to that position on 6 June 2016. Prior to that, from 1 March 2015 until 6 June 2016, she served as Cabinet Minister for National Security. She was appointed to that position on 1 March 2015, replacing Wilson Muruli Mukasa, who was appointed Minister of Gender and Social Issues. Between 2012 and 2015, she served as the Minister of Gender and Social Issues in the Cabinet of Uganda. She was appointed to that position in 2012. She replaced Syda Bumba, who resigned from Cabinet. Mary Karoro Okurut also serves as the elected Member of Parliament for Bushenyi District Women's Constituency. In the 2020 National resistance movement NRM party flag bearer elections, Karooro lost to Annet Katusiime Mugisha who was elected Bushenyi district woman member of parliament in the 2021 Uganda presidential and parliamentary elections.
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Monica Arac de Nyeko
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- writerpoet
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Monica Arac de Nyeko is a Ugandan writer of short fiction, poetry, and essays, living in Nairobi. In 2007 she became the first Ugandan to win the Caine Prize for African Writing, with her story "Jambula Tree". She had previously been shortlisted for the prize in 2004 for "Strange Fruit", a story about child soldiers in Gulu, Northern Uganda. She is a member of FEMRITE – Uganda Women Writers Association and the chief editor of T:AP Voices. She taught literature and English at St. Mary's College Kisubi before proceeding to pursue a Master in Humanitarian Assistance at the University of Groningen. Her personal essay "In the Stars" won first prize in the Women's World, Women in War Zones essay writing competition. She has been published in Memories of Sun, The Nation, IS magazine, Poetry International and several other publications. She is one of the writers announced as part of the Africa39 project unveiled by Rainbow, Hay Festival and Bloomsbury Publishing at the London Book Fair 2014. It is a list of 39 of Sub-Saharan Africa's most promising writers under the age of 40.
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Agnes Kalibata
- Born in
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Rwanda - Occupations
- international forum participantpolicymakeragronomistchief executive officer
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Agnes Matilda Kalibata is a Rwandan agricultural scientist and policymaker, and president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa. She served as Rwanda's minister of agriculture and animal resources from 2008 to 2014 and began her tenure as president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) in 2014.
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Kanyama Chiume
- Occupations
- politicianteacher
- Biography
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Kanyama Chiume, born Murray William Kanyama Chiume, was a leading nationalist in the struggle for Malawi's independence in the 1950s and 1960s. He was also one of the leaders of the Nyasaland African Congress and served as the Minister of Education and the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the 1960s before fleeing the country after the 1964 Cabinet Crisis.
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Dilma Dila
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- film directorwriterscreenwriter
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Dilman Dila is a Ugandan writer, film maker and a social activist. He is the author of a collection of short stories, A Killing in the Sun, and of two novellas, Cranes Crest at Sunset, and The Terminal Move. He was shortlisted for the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for "A Killing in the Sun", longlisted for the Short Story Day Africa prize, 2013, and nominated for the 2008 Million Writers Award for the short story "Homecoming". He was longlisted for the BBC International Radio Playwriting Competition with his first radio play, Toilets are for Something Fishy. His film The Felistas Fable won four awards at the Uganda Film Festival 2014, for Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Feature Film, and Film of the Year (Best Director). It won two nominations at the Africa Movie Academy Awards for Best First Feature by a Director, and Best Make-up Artist. It was also nominated for the African Magic Viewers Choice Awards for Best Make-up artist, 2013. His first short film, What Happened in Room 13, is one of the most watched African films on YouTube. In 2015, he was longlisted for the Inaugural Jalada Prize for Literature for his story "Onen and his Daughter".
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Abed Bwanika
- Enrolled in Makerere University
- Graduated with Master of Veterinary Science
- Occupations
- politicianveterinarian
- Biography
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Abed Bwanika is a Ugandan veterinarian, politician, and pastor. He is the President of the People's Development Party, an opposition political party in Uganda.
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Rosemary Mbabazi
- Born in
- Rwanda
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rosmary Mbabazi, is a businesswoman and politician in Rwanda, who has served as the Cabinet Minister for Youth and culture in the Rwandan cabinet, since 31 August 2017.
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Pio Zirimu
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- linguistwriter
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Pio Zirimu was a Ugandan linguist, scholar and literary theorist. He is credited with coining the word "orature" as an alternative to the self-contradictory term, "oral literature" used to refer to the non-written expressive African traditions. Zirimu was also central in reforming the literature syllabus at Makerere University to focus on African literature and culture instead of the English canon.
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Doreen Baingana
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Doreen Baingana is a Ugandan writer. Her short story collection, Tropical Fish, won the Grace Paley Award for Short Fiction in 2003 and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book, Africa Region in 2006. Stories in it were finalists for the Caine Prize in 2004 and 2005. She was a Caine Prize finalist for the third time in 2021 and has received many other awards listed below.
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Grace Akello
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianessayistpoetfolklorist
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Grace Akello is a Ugandan poet, essayist, folklorist, and politician. She is the Uganda Ambassador to India.
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Basil Kiiza Bataringaya
- Years
- 1927-1972 (aged 45)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Basil Kiiza Bataringaya was a prominent Ugandan politician in post-independence Uganda. He was the Leader of the Opposition at the beginning of the Apollo Milton Obote government, and then he changed parties and was appointed to the powerful role of Ugandan Minister of Internal Affairs. He was imprisoned, tortured, and was one of the first political prisoners to be executed by the Idi Amin regime.
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Harriet Anena
- Born in
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Uganda - Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Ber Anena born and previously published as Harriet Anena is a Ugandan writer and performer, whose writing includes poetry, nonfiction and fiction. She is the author of a collection of poems, A Nation In Labour, published in 2015, won the 2018 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. The Economist described her poetry performance as "an arresting evocation of love and war".
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Christine Alalo
- Years
- 1970-2019 (aged 49)
- Occupations
- police officer
- Biography
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Christine Alalo was a Ugandan peacekeeper and police commissioner, who received the EU Human Rights Defenders Award in 2014. She was one of the passengers killed in the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.
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Clare Akamanzi
- Occupations
- politicianbusinesspersoninternational forum participant
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Clare Akamanzi is a Rwandan lawyer, public administrator, businesswoman and politician, who served as the executive director and chief executive officer of the Rwanda Development Board From February 2017 to September 2023. The position is a cabinet-level appointment by the President of Rwanda. She has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer for NBA Africa where she is going to start in 23rd January 2024, following a resignation by the former CEO Victor Williams.
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Fabian Kasi
- Occupations
- bankerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Fabian Kasi is an accountant, bank executive, and businessman in Uganda, the third-largest economy in the East African Community. He is the managing director and chief executive officer of the Centenary Bank, with over US$573 million in assets as of April 2014.
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Rebeka Njau
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Rebeka Njau was Kenya's first female playwright and a pioneer in the representation of African women in literature. Her writing has addressed topics such as female genital mutilation and homosexuality. Her first novel, Ripples in the Pool (1975), appeared as number 203 in the Heinemann African Writers Series.
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Francis Omaswa
- Occupations
- politiciansurgeon
- Biography
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Francis Gervase Omaswa, MBChB, MMed, FRCS, FCS (ECSA), is a Ugandan cardiovascular surgeon, academic and administrator. He was installed as the chancellor of Soroti University, one of the nine public universities in Uganda at that time, in August 2022.
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Patrick Mazimhaka
- Years
- 1948-2018 (aged 70)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Patrick Kayumbu Mazimhaka was the former Deputy Chairperson of the African Union's African Commission. He was elected the Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission in July 2003 held in Maputo, Mozambique, and held the office until 6 February 2008, when he was succeeded by Erastus J. O. Mwencha. He was, until his election, the Senior Presidential Advisor to the President of Rwanda on the Great Lakes Region.
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Samuel Sejjaaka
- Occupations
- accountantuniversity teacherbusinessperson
- Biography
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Samuel Kisakye Sejjaaka is a Ugandan accountant, academic and businessman. He is Principal and Country Team Leader at MAT ABACUS Business School. Between 1993 and 2014, he lectured at Uganda's oldest tertiary institution, Makerere University and rose to the position of Deputy Principal. In December 2014, he retired from the institution at age 50. He then helped establish Abacus Business School, Uganda's premier executive education institution. In 2019, Abacus Business school merged with the Management Accountancy Training Company (MAT) to form MAT ABACUS Business School.
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Lydia Wanyoto Mutende
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Lydia Wanyoto Mutende, is a Ugandan lawyer, politician and diplomat, who served as the Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson of African Union Commission (DSRCC), based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. From July 2014 until August 2014, she temporarily served as Head of the African Union Mission to Somalia.
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James Mutende
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- politician
- Biography
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James Shinyabulo Mutende was a Ugandan veterinarian, economist, academic and politician. He was the State Minister of Industry in the Ugandan Cabinet from 27 May 2011 until his death. He replaced Father Simon Lokodo, who was appointed State Minister for Ethics & Integrity in the Office of the President. On account of being a cabinet minister, James Mutende was also an ex officio Member of Parliament.
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Josephine Nambooze
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- researcherphysicianacademic
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Josephine Nambooze is a Ugandan physician, public health specialist, academic, and medical researcher. She is an emeritus professor of public health at Makerere University School of Public Health. Nambooze was the first female East African to qualify as a physician circa 1959.
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Henry Musasizi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Henry Ariganyira Musasizi is a Ugandan business administrator, certified public accountant and politician. He is the reelected Member of Parliament for Rubanda County East and a representative for NRM, the ruling political party in Uganda.
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Christine Ondoa
- Occupations
- pastorpolitician
- Biography
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Christine Joyce Dradidi Ondoa is a physician and medical administrator who is regarded as one of Uganda's finest leaders especially in ensuring that the quality of health service delivery in Uganda is improved, and discipline and ethical code of conduct among health workers is observed. She is a Ugandan paediatrician and Christian Leader. She currently serves as the Director General of the Uganda AIDS Commission. She was appointed to that position by the President of Uganda in February 2014. Prior to that, she served as a Senior Presidential Advisor to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Public Health. She was a member of the board of directors of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization. She was Minister of Health in the Ugandan Cabinet from 2011 to 2013. She was appointed to that position on 27 May 2011, but was replaced by Ruhakana Rugunda on 23 May 2013. On account of being a cabinet minister she was a member of the Ugandan Parliament, in an ex officio capacity. Prior to that, she was the Executive Director of Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital, one of the fourteen regional referral hospitals in Uganda.
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Akite Agnes
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- actorcomedian
- Biography
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Akite Agnes is a Ugandan stand-up comedian, actress, MC, and philanthropist. She is popularly known for her role as Arach in the series The Hostel. She has also acted in Pearl Magic's Girl from Mparo as Mama Brian, the nosy neighbour. Her style of comedy reflects on the daily issues that people face as they go about their lives.
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Ronnie Balya
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Ronnie Balya is a Ugandan military officer currently serving at the rank of Brigadier General in the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF). He is currently serving as Uganda's ambassador to South Sudan, based in Juba, from 2017. Before that, from 2010 until 2017, he was the Director General of the Internal Security Organisation (ISO).
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Victoria Sekitoleko
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Victoria Sekitoleko is a former Minister of Agriculture in the Ugandan government, a post she held from 1986 to 1995. She was a representative for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in China, Mongolia, and South Korea (October 2006 – April 2011) She previously served as the FAO's representative in Ethiopia to the African Union (AU), and to the Economic Community for Africa (ECA) (2005–2006). She was FAO Sub Regional Representative to Eastern and Southern Africa, based at Harare, Zimbabwe.(1995–2004). Recently appointed to the Biyinzika Poultry International Limited (BPIL) Board in June 2017.
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Julius Ocwinyo
- Occupations
- novelistpoet
- Biography
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Julius Ocwinyo is a Ugandan editor, poet and novelist. His novels include Fate of the Banished, The Unfulfilled Dream (2002)and Footprints of the Outsider. His work has appeared in several news papers including The New York Times.
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N’gandu Peter Magande
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Ng'andu Peter Magande, was a Zambian politician and economist. He served as the Minister of Finance and National Planning of the Republic of Zambia from 2003 to 2008. He also served as a Member of Parliament for Chilanga Constituency from 2006 until 2010 and the Chairman of the MMD Party Committee on Economy and Finance.
