{"id":2055,"date":"2020-10-13T08:24:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T08:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2020-10-13T10:03:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T10:03:57","slug":"museveni-named-university-of-dar-es-salaam-alumni-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/museveni-named-university-of-dar-es-salaam-alumni-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"MUSEVENI NAMED UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM  ALUMNI OF THE MONTH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Kaguta Museveni<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>YEAR OF MATRICULATION:<\/strong>&nbsp;1967<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>EDUCATION:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BA Economics: 1970<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DLit (honoris causa): 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uganda\u2019s long serving President \u00a0\u00a0Yoweri Museveni has been named alumni of the month by the prestigious\u00a0 University of Dar Salaam in \u00a0Tanzania.\u00a0 The University gave a glowing tribute to the Ugandan leader\u00a0 reproduced here below ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in 1944, during World War II, in Ntungamo in Ankole, Uganda Protectorate, to parents Mzee Amos Kaguta (1916\u2013 2013), a cattle herder, and Ma Esteri Kokundeka Nganzi (1918\u20132001), a housewife. The world war was the source of his own personal name \u2018Museveni\u2019: one born at the time of the military service of the Seventh Regiment of the King\u2019s African Rifles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;He went to school to Kyamate Elementary, Mbarara High and Ntare Schools which, being among very few prestigious mission or else privately-sponsored character- building institutions, must have formed his early base of character formation and resilience built a strong foundation for the intellectual and \u2018scouting\u2019 feats of his later part of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yoweri Kaguta Museveni enrolled in the University of East Africa at Dar es Salaam in 1967, graduating in 1970 with a BA (honours) in political science and economics. It was while at Dar es Salaam that he forged alliances with other politically active \u201crevolutionaries\u201d from around the region. While he was truly a good student there \u2013 in political science and economics, it might well be said that a greater share of his learning was perhaps not directly as much from his college lecturers as it was from the \u2018great revolutionaries\u2019 outside of classroom, of the stature of Marx, Lenin, Fanon, Mao and Castro. In a second order would be Western liberal- radical thinkers such as Galbraith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;He became not only a seasoned \u2018guest-fighting intellectual\u2019 in liberation movements such as the FRELIMO but also a practising politico-economist of the persuasions of Galbraith and others (in advocating a \u201cnew socialism\u201d that prefers small, farmer-sensitive firms over large competitive corporations, favours nationalising military production and public services such as health care, as well as introduces disciplined wage, salary and profit and price controls on the economy so as to reduce inequality and restrain the power of giant corporations). Whenever on university vacations he would partake in combat and striker camps inside Mozambique territory but also play part in what were known as ideological classes that would be&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>held often on Sundays to replace the religious liturgies. He later adapted his own intellectual posture in nation-building efforts to a balance of these two seemingly parallel lines, moderated, as came to be, by a pragmatic criss-crossing blend of ground-tested pragmatic experiences. His dedication and singular mindedness to the economic progress of his country and the well-being of its citizens has remained steadfast. He went to the bush for the sake of the people who had been downtrodden and dispossessed for a long time, he would remind the people and himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While over the years he has found some time to visit his Alma Mater notwithstanding his busy schedules?and UDSM fully thanks him for that?President Museveni has also found time to jot down his reflections for wider dissemination on the experiences Africa has had at various times in her history and to offer ideas on how our region can make headway. Sowing the Mustard Seed: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in Uganda, published and reprinted since 1997 and What is Africa\u2019s Problem? (ed. by Kevin Shillington, University of Minnesota Press, Library binding, 2000) are not only an interesting read but also a stimulus to even wider questions in need of answers. Yet at the cultural-linguistic level of national development, President Museveni has authored a book, Katondoozi: A Thesaurus of Runyankore-Rukiga (2019), written in an indigenous African language and making what Makerere\u2019s Prof. Elly Sabiiti, in a Citation for the Outstanding Scholarly Authorship Award, recognised as a \u201ccomplete granary for the Runyankore-Rukiga\u201d displaying the \u201crich and unique vocabulary\u201d of an African language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2011, in an interview with BBC, he said that he wanted to leave two things as his legacy: A clearly evident socio- economic transformation of Uganda that headed towards turning the country into a first-world state; and an East African Federation. Let\u2019s join him in hoping for the realization of this wish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Kaguta Museveni YEAR OF MATRICULATION:&nbsp;1967 EDUCATION: BA Economics: 1970 DLit (honoris causa): 2011 Uganda\u2019s long serving President \u00a0\u00a0Yoweri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadership"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/portrait.jpeg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2065,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/museveni-changes-name-as-electoral-commission-puts-politicians-on-notice-ahead-of-2021-polls\/","url_meta":{"origin":2055,"position":0},"title":"MUSEVENI CHANGES NAME AS ELECTORAL COMMISSION PUTS POLITICIANS ON NOTICE AHEAD OF 2021 POLLS","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"October 13, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Politician are in a mad rush to correct their names including President \u00a0Yoweri Museveni following the new rules about registration of persons ahead of the 2021 general elections .The Electoral Commission has put politicians on notice that aspirants with different names other than those on their academic documents will not\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elections&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elections","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/category\/elections\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1922,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/courts-should-grant-bail-to-capital-offenders-judiciously-museveni\/","url_meta":{"origin":2055,"position":1},"title":"COURTS SHOULD GRANT BAIL TO CAPITAL OFFENDERS JUDICIOUSLY-MUSEVENI","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"September 19, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"President Yoweri Museveni has asked judicial officers to be cautious\u00a0 when granting bail to capital offenders. \u201c The public does not understand the idea of Police bond. 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