MAKERERE UNIVERSITY MAKERERE UNIVERSITY 5 4 we build for the future 5 we build for the future 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 Uganda 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 SPECIOZA KAZIBWE 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 SAMSON KISEKKA 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 Gilbert Bukenya, 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 Kampala 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.