MAKERERE UNIVERSITY MAKERERE UNIVERSITY we build for the future we build for the future 3 2 3 cated all this by awarding him the Secretariat. A Uganda, born He was a leading national- ment. In his book (Not Yet devotedly served as chancellor for Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) of 44 years ago, Eriyo has since ist and political agitator in the Uhuru), Mzee Jaramogi Odinga Makerere University as well. Makerere University. PRO Ritah April 2012 been Deputy EAC independence struggle for Nyasa- reveals that he did his A’levels at Secretary General in charge of land which became Malawi after Alliance High School after which Namisango says they were recog- JULIUS NYERERE nizing his outstanding record of Productive and Social Sectors. independence. Born on Novem- he went to Makerere University excellence in diplomacy, journal- She has a Bachelors degree in ber 22 1929, Murray William in 1940. Thereafter he returned Julius Kambarage Nyerere ism, administration, governance; Social Sciences, a Post Graduate Kanyama Chiume, a Makerere to Kenya to teach at a second- was born on April 13th 1922 and BUILDING regional and global politics. Diploma in Education (PGDE) graduate was synonymous ary school- Maseno High School died on October 14th 1999. The and a Master’s degree in arts-all with the Malawi independence until 1948 when he joined Kenya Tanzanian founding president was from Makerere University. A struggle of the 1950s-1960s. He African Union (KAU), one of an alumnus of Makerere Univer- RICHARD SEZIBERA proud Makererean, Jessica Eriyo was also one of the leaders of the the political parties then fighting sity. He ruled Tanzania from 1961 This top Rwandan diplomat left describes herself as “an educa- Nyasaland African Congress and for independence. Through his to 1985 when he retired. Born to Makerere University in 1989 after tor, social worker, politician and after independence; he served Luo Thrift and Trading Corpora- the Zanaki Chief Nyerere Burito, satisfying his scholarly require- diplomat.” On graduating from as the Minister of Education and tion (registered in 1947), Mzee the former Tanzanian president ments for the award of a degree Makerere, Eriyo used her PGDE later Foreign Affairs in the 1960s Jaramogi Odinga famously did a was known by the Swahili name in human medicine. Dr. Richard to become a teacher and taught before fleeing the country after Ruhakana Rugunda aka Ndugu lot of work to arouse trade union Mwalimu which means teacher. EAST AFRICA Sezibera briefly worked at a at Our Lady Consolanta Senior the 1964 Cabinet Crisis. He was activism in the whole of East Some of his people famously hospital in Kampala before being Secondary School between 1998 a student at Makerere in 1949 Africa. His Luo people christened referred to him as Baba wa Taifa posted at Mbale regional hospital and 1999. She later on quit to and trained at Makerere Medical him Jaramogi which means “man which means Father of the Na- Makerere has indeed contributed to where he served until 1994 when serve as the District Population School (as it then was) until 1951. of the people of Ramogi.” tion. Mwalimu Nyerere did his Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile he quit becoming a field medical Officer for her native Adju- He was fond of Makerere be- university education at Makerere officer for the then rebel Rwandan mani District until 2001 when cause, like many vibrant activists University where he trained as MILTON OBOTE Human Resource Dev’t in the region Patriotic Front (RPF) whose leader- she joined elective politics. She in the Sub Saharan Africa of his a teacher and where after he ship later on promoted him to the became Adjumani woman MP, day, it appealed to him as East The Uganda founding president enrolled at the University of rank of Major. In July 1994, shortly a post she held until 2011. So Africa’s Premier University. He and icon for the independence Edinburgh. In 1954, he helped 2012 during Makerere’s 62nd after the RPF captured Kigali, she served two terms, totaling 10 also studied education, Physics, struggle across the sub Saharan form the Tanganyika African graduation ceremony, Kibaki Sezibera became the personal years. In 2006 she was appointed Chemistry and Biology at Mak- Africa was born in Lango to National Union which fought for received his honorary doctor- physician to Pasteur Bizimungu State Minister for the Environ- erere where his contemporaries a chiefly family on December independence paving for his way ate. President Museveni also who became Rwandan presi- ment, a post she held up to included people B. Ogot (who 28th 1925 and died on October to become the first elected Prime attended this ceremony at the dent immediately after the war. 27 May 2011. This paved way after Makerere became Kenya’s 10th 2005. He led Uganda to Minister of Tanganyika in 1961 University Freedom Square. Sezibera later on joined politics in for her appointment (in April celebrated historian and Chancel- independence in 1962 and made before it became the Republic of what remains unrivaled history Tanzania in 1962. He spearheaded BENJAMIN MKAPA 1995 and in won a parliamentary 2012) as EAC Deputy Secretary lor of Moi University in Eldoret) seat. He became President of the General on secondment by the and Mwai Kibaki. Kanyama when he ruled Uganda twice (in the unification of Tanganyika Benjamin William Mkapa Parliamentary Commission on government of Uganda. Besides Chiume was so politically active 1962-71 & 1980-85). His statesman the main land and Zanzibar served as third Tanzania Presi- Social Affairs. In 1999, he became being eligible for re-appointment, at Makerere; he became the credentials went beyond Uganda the island. His socialist Arusha dent from 1995 to 2005. One Rwandan Ambassador to the Eriyo still has a few years to president of the Makerere Col- and boldly manifested during the Declaration provided for ujamaa of its most illustrious alumni, US before being transferred to finish her current term as EAC lege Political Society where Mwai 1971 Common Wealth (Chogm) villages through which socialism Mkapa graduated from Mak- Mexico, Argentina and Brazil. Deputy Secretary General. Kibaki was a committee member. conference in Singapore where he was imposed in Tanzania. In 1985, erere University in Uganda in Meanwhile, he took off time to Chiume was later joined at Mak- openly criticized the international after more than two decades in 1962 with a degree in English add on what Makerere inculcated erere by other Malawian students community for playing double power, Nyerere handed over to language. His pursuit of knowl- in him and did a master’s degree MARGARET ZZIWA like Vincent Gondwe, David standards on the evil of Apart- his annointed successor Hassan edge saw him join Columbia in international affairs at George- The East African Legislative Rubadiri (later became Vice heid in South Africa. He paid the Mwinyi. Notwithstanding its University in 1963 where town University, Washington, DC. Assembly (EALA) Speaker is also Chancellor of the University of price when the British revenged weaknesses, his socialistic Ujamaa he was awarded a master’s Subsequently, he became President a product of Makerere Universi- Malawi) and Augustine Bwanausi by facilitating army commander policy enabled Tanzania to make degree in international affairs. Paul Kagame’s Special Envoy for ty and she is proud to be. In her (who became Malawi cabinet Idi Amin to oust him in a coup good progress in the delivery of Before becoming president, the Great Lakes Region. He also own words, Zziwa credits Mak- minister after Makerere). Besides on January 1971. The man from services like health and education. Mkapa, famous for his great oversaw the process for Rwanda’s erere confessing that the skills founding Nyasaland Students Akokoro village in Apac district Even after retirement, Nyerere journalistic works, also held a admission into the membership imparted in her during the pro- Association at Makerere (which in northern Uganda trained at remained the chairman of the number of public offices in the of the EAC which materialized in cess for her Masters’ degree in did research for combatants Makerere though he didn’t finish Chama Cha Mapinduzi. In 1999, Republic of Tanzania includ- 2007. Between October 2008 and Women and Gender Studies later back home in the independence his course. All the way from Prot- the whole world mourned when ing being the administrative April 2011, Makerere-trained Dr. enabled her to do life-changing struggle), Chiume also chaired estant Missionary Primary School he died of leukemia in a London officer in Dodoma and later on Sezibera served as Health Minister research on the status of women Makerere College Education Richard Sezibera, EAC in Lira, Gulu Junior Secondary hospital. As president of Tanza- Minister of Science, Technol- School and Busoga College Mwiri, for his country Rwanda. In May concerning access to low cost Society. After graduating at Secretary General1 nia, Nyerere passionately worked ogy and Higher Education. He 2011, his star was to rise even housing facilities in slummy East Makerere, Chiume taught at Obote joined Makerere Univer- with fellow presidents Obote Presidents Yoweri Museveni and Mwai Kibaki during the was also Tanzania’s Foreign higher when he became the 3rd African suburbs like Namuwon- Alliance Secondary School in sity in the 1940s. His intention was and Kenyatta to promote the 62nd graduation ceremony at Makerere Freedom Square affairs Minister from 1977 to Secretary General ever for the go, Soweto and Masese in Jinja. Dodoma Tanzania. He resigned to study law which, unfortunately, University of East Africa (UEA) 1980 and from 1984 to 1990 for EAC, a position he still holds. In Having had her secondary educa- his job at this school after at that time wasn’t yet being whose 50th anniversary (counting the second time.