John Mwesigwa Nagenda ( 1938 – 2023): The Long Walk back home!
As he lay dying, the son stood on the edge, a storm of thoughts clouding his mind. His father, whom he loved deeply, was a famous global Evangelist, w...
Joyce Kaddu ( 1939- 2022)- a teachers teacher; a mother’s mother, quietly bows out!
As the Luwero Triangle war took root in the mid-1980s in Uganda, the country was on the brink of being a failed state, and Mrs Joyce Agiri Natabi Kadd...
DR. Daniel Semambo, PhD (1957-2022): His Life, Mission & Legacy
Late one evening my mother returned from Mulago hospital where she was employed as a nurse, at Mwanamugimu outpatient clinic, her face distraught. “La...
Governor Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile (1949- 2022) and the mixed legacy of Uganda’s economic reforms!
For a long time I had wished to meet Mr. Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile, the famed Permanent Secretary/ Secretary to Treasurer, Uganda’s Ministry of F...
Christopher Sembuya (1935 – 2022): The Story Of A Visionary African Industrialist Ignored By His Own Government
Mr Christopher Sembuya, the co-founder of Sembule Steel Mills, once one of the leading industrial conglomerates in Uganda, that threatened to b...
Patrick Bakka Male (1961-2021): “Aspire, inspire and leave” the man who lived serving others!
When you are new to a school and someone directs you- “That one is the Head Prefect” for some new students, the resolution might well be to keep as fa...
The Enigmatic Son of a Priest from a Split Uganda and Kenyan Family – Aggrey Awori ( 1939- 2021)
In the early 1998 I became the second host of Spectrum, the long running current affairs Radio 1 talk show. One of my regular guests to discuss the da...
Curtain gently draws on one of Uganda’s most illustrous houses: Dr. John Nsibambi (1930- 2021)
On 24th May, 1966, Prime Minister Milton Obote having already arrested five of his rebellious cabinet ministers who had sided with those moving a vote...
The man we called quick feet: Simon Bugaba (1962 – 2021)
Early this year I received a whatsap message from a man known to many as Eng Bugaba of Uganda Communications Commision ( UCC). But for his classmates ...