Meet Prof. John Tabuti an ethno botanist and researcher at Makerere university

Meet Prof. John Tabuti an ethno botanist and researcher at Makerere university

John Robert Stephen Tabuti is a Professor of Medicinal Plants, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Makerere University. He is an educator, ethno botanist and researcher. His ethno botanical research interests are aimed at identifying, promoting and conserving useful plant species. He is principally interested in documenting plant use, and researching the effects of such […]

Meet Prof. Fredrick I. B. Kayanja, founding Vice Chancellor, Mbarara University of Science and Technology

Meet Prof. Fredrick I. B. Kayanja, founding Vice Chancellor, Mbarara University of Science and Technology

Prof. Fredrick I. B. Kayanja is the founder and former Vice Chancellor, Mbarara University of Science and Technology. Apart from carrying out his administrative roles, he is also a Professor in the faculty of Medicine, making him the only teaching Vice Chancellor in Uganda. He attended undergraduate courses in the Universities of London and Oxford, […]

Professor John Chrysostom Maviiri appointed Vice Chancellor Uganda Martyrs University

Professor John Chrysostom Maviiri appointed Vice Chancellor Uganda Martyrs University

Professor John Chrysostom Maviiri is the new Vice Chancellor of Uganda Martyrs University. His appointment starts in January 2015. Professor John Chrysostom started his lecturing career at St. Mbaaga Major Seminary College (1987 – 1991) and advanced himself in the same profession as a lecturer, senior lecturer and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Theology […]

Profile of Trevor Ncube, the courageous African voice of freedom

Profile of Trevor Ncube, the courageous African voice of freedom

Trevor Ncube is the owner and publisher of his home country’s remaining independent newspapers the Standard and the Zimbabwean Independent. He was awarded the prize for his fight for freedom, human rights, democracy and independent journalism in Zimbabwe and in broader Africa. According to the German Africa Foundation, which was established 30 years ago to […]

Ndejje University Vice Chancellor

Prof. Eriabu Lugujjo, the Vice Chancellor of Ndejje University has been an academician for over thirty years. Prof. Lugujjo obtained a first class B.Sc degree in Mathematics and Physics at Makerere University. He did graduate studies leading to M.Sc and Ph.D degrees both in Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology, California U.S.A. Prof. Lugujjo […]

Profile of Prof. Charles Olweny Vice Chancellor of Uganda Martyrs University

Profile of Prof. Charles Olweny Vice Chancellor of Uganda Martyrs University

Prof. Charles Mark Lwanga Olweny is a Ugandan physician, academician and a medical researcher. He is a professor of medicine and vice-chancellor at Uganda Martyrs University,  Nkozi, Mpigi District, in Central Uganda. Charles Olweny was born in 1944, in Tororo, Tororo District, in Eastern Uganda. He served as the director of the Uganda Cancer Institute, […]