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Hospital in Washington DC and at Kenyatta he spoke out against the Amin dictatorship, a Bachelor of Science in 1996. She later joined ment Centre (LDC). A Botswana national, of Planning in 1981, Senior Econo- Okellos in 1986, Otunnu returned Catholic missionary hospital in 1983. He won acco- National Hospital in Nairobi Kenya. At Maker- got imprisoned and escaped to exile to London University of East Anglia in England for her Samuel Lungole Awich after Makerere became mist at finance ministry and Chief to academia and became a Visiting lades in both local and international media when he ere, Rugunda, famously referred to as “Ndugu” in England in 1974. While there he studied Master’s degree (MSc-1996) and PhD in plant a leading jurist in Commonwealth jurisprudence Economist government of Fellow at the American University resisted safe life in the Diaspora and opted to remain (Swahili for brother), was elected to serve as theology at Selwyn College, Cambridge and breeding. and his career, nurtured at Makerere, saw him in 1984. In the early 1990s, he in Paris. Otunnu has also received behind and treat his Acholi co-ethnics at the peak of President of the National Union of Students got his PhD in theology in 1984. In 1996 he was serve the justice system in Uganda, Botswana, became Permanent Secretary for several major International awards Kony’s LRA rebellion. On Good Friday in 1989 Luk- of Uganda (NUSU) which was a politically consecrated as the Bishop of Stepney before the Solomon Islands and for the past decade the merged Ministries of Finance including the Distinguished Service wiya famously convinced LRA rebels, during a raid very vibrant youth movement. When growing becoming the Bishop of Birmingham in 2000. PS SEMPA Belize in the Caribbean islands. He was at first Planning & Economic Development. Award, awarded by the United at the hospital where he worked in Gulu/Kitgum, not up as a youth, Rugunda was also personally It was in 2005 that be became Archbishop Pastor Martin Sempa is a leading moralist a state attorney in the Botswana government He had passionately advocated for Nations Association of USA (2001): to abduct or rape the Italian nuns who were working very close to Dr. Apollo Milton Obote who of York which he still is to this day. Besides and HIV-Aids activist on the African continent. from 1976 before becoming a Senior Magistrate this merger and worked well with German Africa Prize (2002): Sydney as volunteers. He offered that Kony’s men should mentored him into the good eloquent leader speaking out for sexual morality, Sentamu has Born in 1968, Sempa, the founder of the Mak- in 1980; Principal Magistrate in 1981; Acting finance minister Gerald Sendawula Peace Prize (2005) and Global instead take him and he was to be in abduction, in he is today. Since 1986, Rugunda has served also used this position to criticize Zimbabwean erere Community Church, joined Makerere Registrar and Master of the High Court in until January 2001 when he was ap- Award for Outstanding Contribu- his doctor’s gown, for a whole 10 days. At the time the world, Africa, East Africa and Uganda in a president Robert Mugabe. Having graduated University in 1988 for his Bachelor’s degree in 1983. In 1989 he became Deputy Registrar in pointed governor Bank of Uganda. tion to Human Rights (India, 2006). of his death, Lukwiya had accommodated a total of number of capacities including being Uganda’s with LLB from Makerere in 1972/73, Sentamu Social Science specializing in sociology before Botswana. In 1993, he opened his private law A few years ago, Makerere honored In 2007, he received the Harvard 9000 people who sought sanctuary at the hospital Permanent Representative to the United Na- got married to his wife Margaret and within getting his Master of Arts degree in counsel- firm (Kgodi and Partners) which is one of the him with honorary PhD award. Law School Association Award where he worked. After Makerere, Lukwiya also won tions. He actually served twice as the president the same week he was arrested and tortured ing from the same University. In 2006, he was most successful ever in Botswana. Later on, he which was co-presented to him by a scholarship to do a master’s degree in tropical pe- of the UN Security Council (in July 2009 and in for criticizing the Amin government for among awarded an honorary doctorate for his work served the Solomon Islands as the Registrar of Elena Kagan, an Associate Justice diatrics in Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He October 2010 during Uganda’s two-year stint other things undermining the judiciary. He was with people with AIDS by a US university. In the High Court and the Court of Appeal. He Ngugi wa Thiongo of the U.S. Supreme Court. declined a teaching position there in order to return on the Security Council). detained and tortured for 90 days. Dr. Aggrey 1989 Sempa was declared the break dancing later became a Justice of the Supreme Court of She made history when she and work amongst his suffering Acholi co-ethnics. Kiyingi who is a world renowned Consultant champion after winning a dancing competition Belize besides working as an expatriate Judge became the first female vice Reformist Lukwiya is also remembered for improvis- ANDREW MWENDA Cardiologist and philanthropist based in Sydney during a social evening at the Makerere swim- in the post war Sierra Leone. In 2009, the then president in Africa and for much ing to expand Lacor hospital’s patient beds to 18,000. JOSEPH KABILA KABANGE Australia, also initially studied at Makerere. ming pool. He used his newly found celebrity Sierra Leone Attorney General Wilfred Elring- of the 3rd world countries. This Arguably the most successful That is how Lacor easily became the best hospital in There is officially little information at Mak- ton criticized the Bar Association for being was in 1994 and she combined the journalist East Africa has ever northern Uganda and the whole country. His much erere about him but close friends, who spent ungrateful for the work of the expatriate judges vice presidency with the ministry of produced, Mwenda doesn’t need publicized exemplary performance inspired many their youths years with him in Makindye Kam- like Samuel Awich were doing for the war torn agriculture. Professionally, Kazibwe, much introduction. The propri- medical professionals within East Africa and beyond. pala confirmed that the DR Congo president West African country. This Makerere graduate who was recently appointed to etor of Uganda’s premier current In December 1998, Lukwiya returned to Makerere to joined the Ivory Tower but quit for another on October 4th 2010 subsequently became the serve on one of the UN-affiliated news magazine, The Independent, do master’s degree in public health. University in Brussels before completing his expatriate Chief Justice of Belize and later on projects in the medical field, attended Busoga College Mwiri course at Makerere. This was in early 1990s for Sierra Leone replacing Abdulai Conteh who qualified as a surgeon at Makerere before joining Makerere University when his late father Laurent Desire Kabila was reached retirement age of 65 in August 2010. University medical school. She was where he graduated with a degree still hassling to oust President Mobutu. Two of The Makerere alumnus also did a lot of judicial vice president for 9 years from in mass communications in the mid Doctor Samson Babi Mululu Kisekka was born on his former great friends Rasta Rob (currently a work in the Caribbean islands as an expatriate 1994 to 2003 when she was replaced 1990s. He says he learnt the art June 23rd 1912 and died on October 25th 1999. He leading events MC and radio presenter in Kam- brought in under the UN arrangement. He by Prof , another of debating, for which he is very famously served under Museveni after 1986 as Prime pala) and Salim Uhuru (a councilor in KCCA) Makerere alumnus and former famous, while at Makerere where Minister (from 1986 to 1991) and as vice president served Belizean chief justice until September Benjamin Mkapa, ex- confirmed that Kabila Jr enrolled in Makerere last year when he was replaced by Kenneth lecturer. Kazibwe joined Maker- he moderated weekly debates (1991-1994) having previously worked as a medical but quit under what they separately described Benjamin. Tanzanian president ere in 1974 straight from Catholic (The T-gang) every Saturday at the doctor and diplomat. He was personally very close as very mysterious circumstances. Joseph Kabila Church-owned Mount Saint Mary’s terrace of Lumumba Hall where to president Museveni. He was born in Mengo, grew in the end became President for DRC after the College Namagunga. She gradu- he resided. He has become famous up in and was very passionate on Buganda’s murder and death of his father in January 2001. MOSES EBUK ated with the Bachelor of Medicine all over the world courtesy of Federo. The son of the Anglican Muluka chief in President Museveni congragulates President Mwai Kibaki during the This medical doctor is a Ugandan born neu- and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) his insightful analysis on foreign Buganda kingdom hierarchy, Kisekka studied at 62nd graduation when he got his PhD at Makerere in January 2012 rophysiologist, academic and diplomat who has degree in 1979 after which she aid, development economics and Ngogwe Central Schools near him parent’s ancestral NGUGI wa THIONGO excelled on the world stage. After studying, he enrolled for the Master of Medicine political economy. Since July 2006, home in Nakifuuma where he won scholarship to He was born on January 5th 1938 and he is immediately became a lecturer in the College (MMed) degree also from Makerere Mwenda has several times ap- join King’s College Buddo. After Buddo, he was in currently a leading Kenyan writer who has ex- of Health Sciences at the Makerere University University Medical School this time peared before the British House of the early 1930s admitted to study human medicine tensively published in both English and Gikuyu Julius Nyerere in Mulago until 2005 when President Museveni specializing in General Surgery. Commons committee on Global for six years at Makerere University Medical School languages. His works include novels, plays, short appointed him Ugandan Ambassador to DRC In mid 2000s, she enrolled for her Poverty to testify against aid to from where he graduated and became a much stories and essays ranging from literary and before elevating him to Moscow Russia still as Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at the Africa. He has also widely written respected doctor. He was a great student and sports- social criticism to children’s literature. He is an ambassador on September 11th 2008. On Harvard School of Public Health, and published articles in prestigious man for Makerere University. He was outspoken and the founder and editor of the Gikuyu-language February 27th 2009, he was hosted by then Rus- Department of Population and publications like the International easily noticeable which explains why he got a senior journal M�t�iri. In 1977, Ng�g� embarked on sian President Dmitry Medvedev to whom he International Health, majoring in Herald Tribune besides being regu- job in the ministry of health as early as January a project to liberate and modernize Kenyan presented his diplomatic credentials. Health Policy Analysis. Kazibwe larly hosted on BBC radio and TV. 1939. During his 14 years in the Civil Service (from theatre. Ngugi, who was jailed several times began her political career as a This Makerere alumnus is also often 1939 through 1953), Kisekka advocated for increased by the Moi dictatorship and was one time Margaret Zziwa Nantongo, member of the women wings of DP. quoted as an authority on poverty enrolment and recognition of African Physicians. He adopted as an Amnesty International prisoner EMMANUEL TUMUSIIME In 1987, she was elected to the RC the Speaker EALA in the 3rd world by international was entrepreneurial as seen in the way he founded of conscience, studied literature at Makerere John Rwangombwa Godfrey Binaisa MUTEBILE system as a women leader under media including BBC, CNN, New Kisekka hospital at a location that later became University and he later on taught the same at The Bank of Uganda governor is also a the NRM umbrella. In 1996, she York Times, Washington Post, The Kisekka market. Yale University, New York University and the graduate of Makerere University and his played a role in Museveni’s election Times & The Economist. In 2008, University of California. He has also often been campaign having previously become leadership has been felt beyond Uganda and the Committee to Protect Journal- regarded as a potential candidate for the Nobel status to preach the gospel and to also propa- East Africa as a whole. Under him the Ugan- the Kampala woman representative ists prized him with the Interna- Prize in Literature. PETER TAKIRAMBUDDE gate his campaigns against HIV-Aids which dan economy has become a model for the 3rd in the legislative assembly. tional Press Freedom Award. Peter Takirambudde is a Ugandan by birth had killed many people in his native Naluzaali world, regularly winning kudos and unsolic- but joined Human Rights Watch (HRW) after village in Masaka. ited recognition by world bodies such as IMF ARCHBISHOP JOHN SENTAMU OLARA OTUNNU DR. MATHEW graduating at Makerere in late 1980s. In the end and World Bank. His economic reforms have Born on June 10th 1949, John Tucker Mugabi he became HRW’s Executive Director for Sub- The former UN under Secretary LUKWIYA HENRY NKUMBULA ensured the Ugandan economy has always Sentamu is currently the (97th) Archbishop of Saharan Africa. Before joining HRW, he taught remained on course despite a few occasional in charge of children affairs, who Born on November York Metropolitan in the province of England. at the University of Botswana. He is a lawyer Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula (1916–1983) was challenges here and there. He has been head almost became secretary general 24th 1957, Lukwiya The Archbishop of York is the second most by training having graduated at Makerere a leading figure in the independence struggle of the central bank since January 1st 2001 and for the UN, graduated with LLB at famously died on De- senior cleric in the Church of England (or An- University in the late 1980s. As a HRW boss, in Northern Rhodesia/Zambia and the political has since been re-appointed for 5 year terms Makerere University in the 1970s. cember 5th 2000 at the glican Church all over the world). Takirambudde has been very outspoken on agitator and African nationalist in him was because of his great performance. He was born At the peak of his diplomatic career peak of the much pub- He is only second to the the political violence in Zimbabwe and other born at Makerere University which he joined as on January 27th 1949 in Kabale District in a in New York, Otunnu became the licized Ebola outbreak Archbishop of Canter- African countries. a student in 1946. He was fresh from Chalim- peasant family. After Makerere College School President of the International Peace in Northern Uganda. A bury. We are therefore Academy. At Makerere, he was a There is also Patrick Kayumbu Mazimhaka bana Teacher Training School where he did where he did his A’levels, Mutebile joined medical superintendent excited to reveal that Jessica-Eriyo, Deputy Guild president and famously stood who until a few years ago was the Chairperson his earlier education and training. Sir Stewart Makerere University in the late 1960s where he for St. Mary’s Hospital this second most power- Secretary General EAC up to Amin’s tyrannical govern- of the African Union’s African Commis- Gore-Browne, a leading white settler and studied economics and politics. He was elected Lacor in Gulu at the time ful figure in the Anglican in ment. He subsequently joined sion. He is a Rwandan national born in April farmer in Rhodesia, is the one who encouraged guild president but fled the country in 1972 of his death, Lukwiya gradu- the whole world Oxford University (where he was 1948 and after his A’level at Ntare School in him to join Makerere saying it was the premier after the Amin regime became uncomfortable ated as a physician at Maker- also studied at Overseas Scholar) and eventually Mbarara, he joined Makerere University for his institution in the whole of sub Saharan Africa. with him after he addressed students criticizing ere University. Lukwiya, who studied at Mak- Harvard Law School where he both Bachelor’s degree in Geology. He went ahead Nkumbula famously attended the 1945 Pan- the expulsion of Asians whom Amin falsely went down fighting Ebola, erere Univer- studied and taught. As a lawyer he to receive his Master of Science still from African Congress in Manchester England. After accused for Uganda’s economic problems at was the first doctor to catch sity where he was onetime an advocate at the law Makerere in 1975. He was briefly retained as a Makerere, he closely worked other African that time. He fled to England, United Kingdom and die of Ebola in 2000, the graduated firm of Chadbourn and Parke in lecturer in the Faculty of Science at Makerere nationalists like Hastings Kamuzu Banda of via Tanzania where prominent Milton Obote very first time it broke out in in law and New York after which he became University where he rose to Head of geol- Malawi and Kenneth Kaunda to resist white su- helped him to finish his studies at Durham Uni- Uganda. His father, a fishmon- went on to Assistant Professor of Law at Al- ogy department. In early 1981, Mazimhaka premacy and imposition of the Central African versity. Upon finishing his masters in October ger, drowned and died when become bany Law School. One time a per- moved to Kenya where he briefly worked as a Federation which the white colonialists were 1974 at Balliol College, Oxford he returned to Lukwiya was 12. His mother was an manent representative of Uganda at consultant with a mining company before he using to enslave Africans. Nkumbula studied Tanzania where he became a lecturer at the a small time trader of tea at the advocate the UN, Otunnu served as Minister finally relocated to Canada with his family. He politics and economics at Makerere University. University of Dar es Salaam. Besides teaching Uganda-Sudan border. His brilliant of the for Foreign Affairs of Uganda from returned to Africa in early 2000s to head the he conducted research for PhD in Economics. performance at school got him a High Court 1985 to 1986 and, as chief nego- AU Commission for Africa. From 1979 todate, Mutebile has held different unique bursary to join Makerere of Uganda. SAMUEL AWICH tiator, participated in the Uganda Dr Daphrosa Gahakwa, a Rwandan politi- public office positions including being deputy University medical school in the He was a He received his degree in law (LLB) with principal secretary to the president at State peace talks which culminated in late 1970s. Towards the end of his practicing cian and former Minister of Education, also Second Class Honors at Makerere University the Nairobi Peace Agreement of studied at Makerere where he graduated with House in 1979, undersecretary in the Ministry President Joseph Kabila training at Makerere, he did lawyer until after which he joined Makerere Law Develop- December 1985. After the fall of the his internship at St. Mary’s Apollo Milton Obote