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Prof. Badru D. Kateregga is one of the few Ugandan entrepreneurs, who have East African University campus in Kitengela, Kenya is one of Kateregga’s universities ventured into university education. A lecturer since 1973, Kateregga founded in 1998 At fi rst, banks sent me away and has seen it grow to over fi ve campuses around the country. He has since but now they are all over me founded the East African University in Kenya, which WHO IS PROF. ? moved to University for my bachelor Medal First Class. opened its doors in 2010. Yet, What did you do before you started setting of arts. I attained my master of arts from the he has had to beat the odds up universities? University of London. I started teaching in ROUGH START IN BUSINESS When I completed my fi rst degree at Makerere Makerere in 1973 after my degree and I have How was your fi rst attempt at owning a to make it. He was thrown University in 1973, I started out as a teaching never stopped teaching. university? assistant in the Faculty of Arts, Makerere I also earned a Doctor of Letters from My chance to realise my dream came in out of the two premises University. I was later promoted to lecturer. Mennonite University and was also awarded the 1997. I was one of the founding directors of where he had established I taught until 1986 when I was appointed title of Professor Emeritus in 2009, among other the Greenland Group of companies that we ’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and the accolades. established in 1994. This is the company that his fi rst university; losing all Middle East. In 2010, I was awarded the Nalubaale Service owned the defunct Greenland Bank. So, in 1997 I served in this position until 1997 when Medal and declared a national hero I sold my idea of establishing a university to my the money he had invested. I left foreign service. But I always by his Excellency President Yoweri fellow directors in the company. They bought harboured a dream of setting up and $ Museveni. it and, a year later in 1998, we embarked on MICHAEL KANAABI owning a university. On top of that, I was awarded setting up structures at the current Kampala talked to him about how he HOW HE the highest medal of honour International University premises in . Tell us briefl y about your PICKED UP by the king of Saudi Arabia, But just when we were starting out, Greenland managed to keep his head education background His Highness King Abdul Aziz, Bank Uganda Limited, the group’s key business I went to Kabasanda UMEA Primary THE PIECES while serving as Uganda’s collapsed. All the other directors lost faith in the above the water and work School, Kabasanda Junior Secondary Ambassador to Saudi Arabia project, leaving me to go it alone. way to his success School then Secondary School p22 and the Gulf States. for both O’ and A’ level. From here, I It is called the King Abdul Aziz CONTINUED ON PAGES 22 & 23