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Makerere University, Uganda
Uganda

The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania....
's largest university, was first established as a technical school in 1922, and in 1963 it became the University of East Africa
University of East Africa

The University of East Africa was established in 1963 and served Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. The University was originally instituted as an independent external college of the University of London....
, offering courses leading to general degrees of the University of London
University of London

Based primarily in London, England, United Kingdom, the University of London is a federal mega university made up of 31 affiliates: 19 separate university institutions, and 12 research institutes....
. It became an independent national university in 1970 when the University of East Africa was split into three independent universities: University of Nairobi
University of Nairobi

The University of Nairobi is the largest university in Kenya. Although its history as an educational institution goes back to 1956, it did not become an independent university until 1970 when the University of East Africa was split into three independent universities: Makerere University in Uganda, the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania...
 (Kenya
Kenya

The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border....
), University of Dar es Salaam
University of Dar es Salaam

The University of Dar es Salaam is a university in the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam. The university was born out of a decision taken in 1970 to split the then University of East Africa into three independent universities; Makerere University , University of Nairobi and University of Dar es Salaam....
 (Tanzania
Tanzania

Tanzania , officially the United Republic of Tanzania , is a country in East Africa that is bordered by Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south....
) and Makerere University. Today, Makerere University has 22 faculties, institutes and schools offering programmes for about 30,000 undergraduates and 3,000 postgraduates.

Makerere was home to many post-independence
Independence

Independence is the self-government of a nation, country, or state by its residents and population, or some portion thereof, generally exercising sovereignty....
 African leaders, including former Ugandan president Milton Obote
Milton Obote

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-76054-0003, Leipzig, Kenia-Tag, Gerald G?tting.jpgApolo Milton Obote , Prime Minister of Uganda from 1962 to 1966 and President of Uganda from 1966 to 1971 and from 1980 to 1985, was a Ugandan political leader who led Uganda to independence from the United Kingdom colonialism administration in 1962....
 and late Tanzania
Tanzania

Tanzania , officially the United Republic of Tanzania , is a country in East Africa that is bordered by Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south....
n president Julius Nyerere
Julius Nyerere

Julius Kambarage Nyerere served as the first President of Tanzania and previously Tanganyika, from the country's founding in 1964 until his retirement in 1985....
.






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Makerere University, Uganda
Uganda

The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania....
's largest university, was first established as a technical school in 1922, and in 1963 it became the University of East Africa
University of East Africa

The University of East Africa was established in 1963 and served Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. The University was originally instituted as an independent external college of the University of London....
, offering courses leading to general degrees of the University of London
University of London

Based primarily in London, England, United Kingdom, the University of London is a federal mega university made up of 31 affiliates: 19 separate university institutions, and 12 research institutes....
. It became an independent national university in 1970 when the University of East Africa was split into three independent universities: University of Nairobi
University of Nairobi

The University of Nairobi is the largest university in Kenya. Although its history as an educational institution goes back to 1956, it did not become an independent university until 1970 when the University of East Africa was split into three independent universities: Makerere University in Uganda, the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania...
 (Kenya
Kenya

The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border....
), University of Dar es Salaam
University of Dar es Salaam

The University of Dar es Salaam is a university in the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam. The university was born out of a decision taken in 1970 to split the then University of East Africa into three independent universities; Makerere University , University of Nairobi and University of Dar es Salaam....
 (Tanzania
Tanzania

Tanzania , officially the United Republic of Tanzania , is a country in East Africa that is bordered by Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south....
) and Makerere University. Today, Makerere University has 22 faculties, institutes and schools offering programmes for about 30,000 undergraduates and 3,000 postgraduates.

Makerere was home to many post-independence
Independence

Independence is the self-government of a nation, country, or state by its residents and population, or some portion thereof, generally exercising sovereignty....
 African leaders, including former Ugandan president Milton Obote
Milton Obote

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-76054-0003, Leipzig, Kenia-Tag, Gerald G?tting.jpgApolo Milton Obote , Prime Minister of Uganda from 1962 to 1966 and President of Uganda from 1966 to 1971 and from 1980 to 1985, was a Ugandan political leader who led Uganda to independence from the United Kingdom colonialism administration in 1962....
 and late Tanzania
Tanzania

Tanzania , officially the United Republic of Tanzania , is a country in East Africa that is bordered by Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south....
n president Julius Nyerere
Julius Nyerere

Julius Kambarage Nyerere served as the first President of Tanzania and previously Tanganyika, from the country's founding in 1964 until his retirement in 1985....
. Former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa
Benjamin Mkapa

Benjamin William Mkapa is a former List of Presidents of Tanzania of the United Republic of Tanzania and former Chairman for the Revolutionary State Party ....
 and current Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki
Mwai Kibaki

Mwai Kibaki is the Heads of State of Kenya of Kenya. Kibaki was previously Vice-President of Kenya , and has held several other cabinet positions, including Minister for Finance , Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Health ....
 are also Makerere alumni.

In the years immediately after Ugandan independence, Makerere University was a focal point for the literary activity that was central to African nationalist culture. Some prominent writers, including Nuruddin Farah
Nuruddin Farah

Nuruddin Farah is a Somalia novelist particularly concerned with women's liberation in postcolonial Somalia. Born in Baidoa, Italian Somaliland , Farah is the son of a merchant father and a poet mother....
, Ali Mazrui
Ali Mazrui

Ali Alamin Mazrui is an academic and political writer on African studies and Islamic studies. He is an Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton....
, David Rubadiri
David Rubadiri

James David Rubadiri is a Malawian diplomat, academic and poet. At independence in 1964, Rubadiri was appointed Malawi's first ambassador to the United States and the United Nations....
, Okello Oculi
Okello Oculi

Okello Oculi , is a Ugandan novelist, poet, and chronicler of African rural village life. He was born in Dokolo, Lira District in northern Uganda and educated at Soroti College and St....
, Ngugi wa Thiongo, John Ruganda, Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux

Paul Edward Theroux is an United States travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is, perhaps, The Great Railway Bazaar , a travelogue about a trip he made by train from Great Britain through Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, through South Asia, then South-East Asia, up through East Asia, as far east as Japan, and then...
, and Peter Nazareth
Peter Nazareth

Peter Nazareth is a critic and writer of fiction and drama. He was born in Uganda of Goan and Malaysian ancestry, and was educated at Makerere University and at the universities of University of London and University of Leeds in England....
, were at Makerere University at one point in their writing and academic careers.

Constituent College



Faculties



Institutes




Schools




Departments



Notable former and current faculty and administrators

  • Mahmood Mamdani
    Mahmood Mamdani

    Mahmood Mamdani is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Departments of Anthropology and Political Science at Columbia University in the United States....
    , political scientist and historian
  • Apolo Nsibambi
    Apolo Nsibambi

    Apolo Robin Nsibambi is the current Prime Minister of Uganda of Uganda, a position he has held since 5 April 1999. He was previously education minister from May 1998 to April 1999 and minister of public services from 1996 to 1998....
    , current Prime Minister of Uganda and former Chancellor
    Chancellor (education)

    A Chancellor is the head of a university. Other titles are sometimes used, such as President or Rector.In most Commonwealth of Nations nations, the Chancellor is usually a Titular ruler non-resident head, often with a Pro-Chancellor as practical Chairman of the governing body ; the actual chief executive of a university is the V...
     of Makerere University
  • Joe Oloka-Onyango
    Joe Oloka-Onyango

    Joe Oloka-Onyango is a Ugandan lawyer and academic. He is Professor of Law and Director of the Makerere University Human Rights and Peace Centre in Kampala, Uganda, as well as the former Dean of Makerere Law School....
    , former Dean of Law and human rights expert
  • Okot p'Bitek
    Okot p'Bitek

    Okot p'Bitek was a Ugandan poet, who achieved wide international recognition for Song of Lawino, a long poem dealing with the tribulations of a rural African wife whose husband has taken up urban life and wishes everything to be Westernization....
    , poet
  • Sylvia Tamale
    Sylvia Tamale

    Sylvia Rosila Tamale was the first woman dean in the Law Faculty at Makerere University, Uganda.Tamle received her Bachelor of Laws with honors from Makerere University, her Master of Laws from Harvard Law School, and her doctorate in Sociology and Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1997....
    , women's rights activist
  • Ngugi wa Thiongo, novelist
  • Nuwagaba Augustus, Associate Professor Department of Social Work and Social Administration
  • Timothy Wangusa
    Timothy Wangusa

    Timothy Wangusa is a Ugandan poet and novelist.Wangusa is an ethnic Bamasaaba, born in Bagisu, in eastern Uganda. He studied English at Makerere University where he later served on faculty, and the University of Leeds ....
    , author, poet, one time minister of education
  • John L. Ziegler, former Director of Uganda Cancer Institute, current Professor in Residence Emeritus at UCSF


Notable alumni


Political figures and government employees


  • Godfrey Binaisa
    Godfrey Binaisa

    Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa Queen's Counsel , lawyer, former Provisional President of Uganda and Attorney General in the post independent government of Uganda of the 1960s....
    , former President of Uganda
  • Gilbert Bukenya
    Gilbert Bukenya

    Gilbert Balibaseka Bukenya has been Vice President of Uganda of Uganda since 23 May 2003.Gilbert Bukenya was born in the village of Lwantama in Kakiri, north of Kampala....
    , current Vice President of Uganda
  • Kanyama Chiume
    Kanyama Chiume

    Kanyama Chiume , was born Murray William Kanyama Chiume, in Nkhata Bay District, Nyasaland where he became a leading Nationalism in the struggle for Malawi?s independence in the 1950s and 1960s....
    , agitator for independence of Nyasaland (now Malawi)
  • Daphrosa Gahakwa
    Daphrosa Gahakwa

    Dr Daphrosa Gahakwa is a Rwandan politician, currently serving as Minister of Education.Gahakwa grew up in Uganda, and graduated from Makerere University with a Bachelor of Science in 1996....
    , Rwandan Eduation Minister
  • Joseph Kabila
    Joseph Kabila

    Joseph Kabila Kabange , is the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo of the Democratic Republic of the Congo . He took office in 2001#January, ten days after the murder of his father and DRC president Laurent-D?sir? Kabila....
    , current President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
    Democratic Republic of the Congo

    The Democratic Republic of the Congo , is a country in central Africa with a small length of Atlantic coastline. It is the third largest list of African countries in order of geographical area....
  • Specioza Kazibwe
    Specioza Kazibwe

    Specioza Naigaga Wandira Kazibwe was the elected Vice President of Uganda, serving from 1994 until 2003, being the first woman in Africa to hold that position....
    , former Vice President of the Republic of Uganda
  • Mwai Kibaki
    Mwai Kibaki

    Mwai Kibaki is the Heads of State of Kenya of Kenya. Kibaki was previously Vice-President of Kenya , and has held several other cabinet positions, including Minister for Finance , Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Health ....
    , current President of Kenya
    Kenya

    The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border....
  • Charles Kikonyogo, former Governor, Bank of Botswana
    Bank of Botswana

    The Bank of Botswana is the central bank of Botswana....
    , Bank of Uganda
    Bank of Uganda

    DescriptionThe Bank of Uganda is the Central Bank of the Republic of Uganda. Established in 1966, by Act of Parliament, BOU is 100% owned by the Government of Uganda, but is not a government department....
  • Samson Kisekka
    Samson Kisekka

    Samson Babi Mululu Kisekka was a vice presidents of Uganda . He also worked as a medical doctor, politician and diplomat. He was closely associated with Yoweri Museveni and served as prime minister and vice-president under him....
    , former Vice President of Uganda
  • Benedicto Kiwanuka
    Benedicto Kiwanuka

    Benedicto Kabimu Mugumba Kiwanuka was the first Prime Minister of Uganda, leader of the Democratic Party and one of the early leaders that led the country in the transition between colonial British rule and independence....
    , first Prime Minister and first Chief Justice of Uganda
  • Yusuf Lule
    Yusuf Lule

    Yusuf Kironde Lule was provisional president of Uganda between 13 April and 20 June 1979. His name is sometimes spelled Yusufu.As the leader of the Uganda National Liberation Front , Lule was installed as President by neighbouring Tanzania who had toppled Idi Amin with help from the UNLF after his failed attempt to annex portions of...
    , former President of Uganda
  • Benjamin Mkapa
    Benjamin Mkapa

    Benjamin William Mkapa is a former List of Presidents of Tanzania of the United Republic of Tanzania and former Chairman for the Revolutionary State Party ....
    , former President of Tanzania
  • Ssentongo Jbm,Former Vice Chairman DP-USA and First Chief Ambassador, Uganda North American Assoc.
  • Emmanuel Mutebile, Governor, Bank of Uganda
    Bank of Uganda

    DescriptionThe Bank of Uganda is the Central Bank of the Republic of Uganda. Established in 1966, by Act of Parliament, BOU is 100% owned by the Government of Uganda, but is not a government department....
  • Mutesa II, former king of Buganda
    Buganda

    Buganda is the kingdom of the Baganda people, the largest of the traditional kingdoms in present-day Uganda. The three million Baganda make up the largest Ugandan ethnic group, although they represent only about 16.7 percent of the population....
     and first President of Uganda
    Uganda

    The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania....
  • Apolo Nsibambi
    Apolo Nsibambi

    Apolo Robin Nsibambi is the current Prime Minister of Uganda of Uganda, a position he has held since 5 April 1999. He was previously education minister from May 1998 to April 1999 and minister of public services from 1996 to 1998....
    , current Prime Minister of Uganda and Chancellor
    Chancellor (education)

    A Chancellor is the head of a university. Other titles are sometimes used, such as President or Rector.In most Commonwealth of Nations nations, the Chancellor is usually a Titular ruler non-resident head, often with a Pro-Chancellor as practical Chairman of the governing body ; the actual chief executive of a university is the V...
     of Makerere University
  • Julius Nyerere
    Julius Nyerere

    Julius Kambarage Nyerere served as the first President of Tanzania and previously Tanganyika, from the country's founding in 1964 until his retirement in 1985....
    , former President of Tanzania
    Tanzania

    Tanzania , officially the United Republic of Tanzania , is a country in East Africa that is bordered by Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south....
  • Oginga Odinga, first Vice-president of Kenya
  • Milton Obote
    Milton Obote

    File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-76054-0003, Leipzig, Kenia-Tag, Gerald G?tting.jpgApolo Milton Obote , Prime Minister of Uganda from 1962 to 1966 and President of Uganda from 1966 to 1971 and from 1980 to 1985, was a Ugandan political leader who led Uganda to independence from the United Kingdom colonialism administration in 1962....
    , two-time President of Uganda
  • James Ogoola, Principal Judge, Uganda High Court


Sportspeople

  • Henry Osinde
    Henry Osinde

    Henry Osinde is a Canadian cricketer who plays One Day International cricket as a right-arm medium-fast bowler. His main achievement so far is taking three wickets against Kenyan cricket team on 5 August 2006 in Toronto, Canada....
     - Ugandan born Cricketer currently Canadian fast bowler.


Writers and journalists

  • Michael Nsimbi, "Father of Ganda literature"
  • Peter Nazareth
    Peter Nazareth

    Peter Nazareth is a critic and writer of fiction and drama. He was born in Uganda of Goan and Malaysian ancestry, and was educated at Makerere University and at the universities of University of London and University of Leeds in England....
    , author, critic
  • Okello Oculi
    Okello Oculi

    Okello Oculi , is a Ugandan novelist, poet, and chronicler of African rural village life. He was born in Dokolo, Lira District in northern Uganda and educated at Soroti College and St....
    , author, poet
  • Okot p'Bitek
    Okot p'Bitek

    Okot p'Bitek was a Ugandan poet, who achieved wide international recognition for Song of Lawino, a long poem dealing with the tribulations of a rural African wife whose husband has taken up urban life and wishes everything to be Westernization....
    , poet
  • Charles Onyango-Obbo
    Charles Onyango-Obbo

    Charles "Mase" Onyango-Obbo is a Ugandan author, journalist, former editor of The Monitor and political commentator of issues in East Africa and the African Great Lakes region....
    , journalist and political commentator
  • David Rubadiri
    David Rubadiri

    James David Rubadiri is a Malawian diplomat, academic and poet. At independence in 1964, Rubadiri was appointed Malawi's first ambassador to the United States and the United Nations....
    , Malawi
    Malawi

    The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast and Mozambique, which surrounds it on the east, south and west....
    an poet, novelist, diplomat
  • Ngugi wa Thiongo, Kenyan novelist
  • Timothy Wangusa
    Timothy Wangusa

    Timothy Wangusa is a Ugandan poet and novelist.Wangusa is an ethnic Bamasaaba, born in Bagisu, in eastern Uganda. He studied English at Makerere University where he later served on faculty, and the University of Leeds ....
    , author, poet, one time minister of education


Others

  • Matthew Lukwiya
    Matthew Lukwiya

    Dr. Matthew Lukwiya was a Ugandan physician and the supervisor of St. Mary's Hospital Lacor, outside of Gulu. He was at the forefront of the 2000 Ebola outbreak and the first doctor to die of the disease....
    , physician in Gulu during the 2000 Ebola
    Ebola

    Ebola is the common term for a group of viruses belonging to genus Ebolavirus , family Filoviridae, and for the disease that they cause, Ebola viral hemorrhagic fever....
     outbreak
  • Patrick Mazimhaka
    Patrick Mazimhaka

    Patrick Kayumbu Mazimhaka is the former Deputy Chairperson of the African Union's African Commission. Mr. Mazimhaka was born on April 26, 1948 in Rwanda....
    , Deputy Chairperson of the African Union
    African Union

    The African Union is an intergovernmental organisation consisting of 53 African states. Established on 9 July 2002, the AU was formed as a successor to the Organisation of African Unity ....
    's African Commission
    African Commission

    The Commission of the African Union acts as the executive/administrative branch or secretariat of the AU . It consists of a number of Commissioners dealing with different areas of policy....
  • Harry Nkumbula
    Harry Nkumbula

    Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula was a Northern Rhodesian/Zambian nationalist leader who assisted in the struggle for the independence of Northern Rhodesia from British colonialism....
    , a leader during Zambia
    Zambia

    The Republic of Zambia is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....
    's struggle for independence
  • Olara Otunnu
    Olara Otunnu

    Olara A. Otunnu is a Ugandan advocate for children's rights, and former Ambassador of Uganda to the UN, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict , and President of the International Peace Institute ....
    , former United Nations
    United Nations

    The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
     Under-Secretary General and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict
  • John Sentamu
    John Sentamu

    John Tucker Mugabi Sentamu Royal Society of Arts is the 97th Archbishop of York, Metropolitan of the province of York, and Primate of England....
     of York, first black Archbishop of the Church of England
    Church of England

    The Church of England is the State religion Christianity Ecclesia in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the oldest among the communion's thirty-eight independent national and regional churches....
  • Peter Takirambudde
    Peter Takirambudde

    Peter Takirambudde is the Ugandan born Executive Director of Human Rights Watch for Sub-Saharan Africa.Before joining Human Rights Watch in 1995, he was a professor at the University of Botswana....
    , Executive Director of Human Rights Watch
    Human Rights Watch

    Human Rights Watch is a United States based, international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. Its headquarters are in New York City....
     for sub-Saharan Africa
  • Andrew Mwenda
    Andrew Mwenda

    Andrew Mwenda is a Ugandan journalist. He attended Busoga College Mwiri in eastern Uganda before attending Makerere University. He was arrested and released on bail by the Ugandan government for "being in possession of seditious material and of publishing inflammatory articles"....
    , the managing director of the independent
  • Kay Amin, a wife of Idi Amin
    Idi Amin

    Idi Amin Dada , commonly known as Idi Amin, was a Ugandan Military dictatorship and the President of Uganda of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin joined the British colony regiment, the King's African Rifles, in 1946, and advanced to the rank of Major General and Commander of the Ugandan Army....


See also

  • African Writers Conference
    African Writers Conference

    In 1962 a conference of African literature in English language, the first African Writers Conference, was held at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda....
  • East African Geographical Review
    East African Geographical Review

    The East African Geographical Review was a peer reviewed academic journal published by the Geography Department at Makerere University from 1963 to 1975....
  • African Geographical Review
    African Geographical Review

    The African Geographical Review , , is a peer-reviewed academic journal published once per year by the Africa Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers....
  • List of universities in Uganda
    List of universities in Uganda

    List of Universities in Uganda=Universities=...
  • List of forestry universities and colleges
    List of forestry universities and colleges

    This is a list of colleges and universities worldwide that offer either a Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in the profession field of forestry. Where noted, the country's Educational accreditation standard has been used and cited....


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