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 […]
Dr. Ahmed Kawesa Sengendo is the first Ugandan to serve as the Rector of Islamic University in Uganda. He has had a distinguished career as Lecturer, Scholar and Academic Administrator in IUIU, which he joined as one of the Pioneer staff when the University opened its doors in 1988. He has served in various positions […]
Prof. Luboobi Livingstone Serwadda is one of the celebrated academic icons Uganda has got. After graduating with a First class bachelors degree in Mathematics, he joined Makerere University as a Special Assistant in 1970 but he had also served as a tutorial in his 3rd year of his undergraduate studies. He was promoted to the […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]