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26 unusual facts about Kampala


Arthur Beresford Pite

Pite continued working on his commissions including the Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly, Christ Church and one other church in Brixton, Kampala Cathedral, Uganda, a hospital in Jerusalem, the Chartered Accounts Hall in Moorgate (with Belcher), the West Library in Islington and buildings in Marylebone to name but a few.

Asaria

From there a large portion of them migrated to East Africa - namely to Mombasa, Kenya; Kampala, Uganda and to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Ashe Mukasa

Born in the Lungujja neighborhood of Kampala, Mukasa began his career playing with local youth sides Nateete Young Stars and Nakivubo Boys.

Brown Babbler

In central Burkina Faso it is observed more frequently during the rainy season, and it has also been observed to be erratically absent or present in the Kampala region of Uganda.

David Obua

Born in Kampala, Uganda, Obua played for a number of clubs in his native Uganda including Police FC.

David Waweru

Events, dubbed BookTalkAfrica have already been held in Nairobi and Kampala where people queued waiting to speak to their favourite authors.

Gottfried Lessing

He and his third wife were killed during the riots against Idi Amin's rule in 1979, in Kampala, Uganda.

Human trafficking in Uganda

Security companies in Kampala recruit Ugandans to serve as security guards in Iraq where, at times, their travel documents and pay have reportedly been withheld as a means to prevent their departure; these cases may constitute trafficking.

Jerry P. Lanier

A career diplomat, Jerry P. Lanier held numerous positions within the State Department prior to assignment in Kampala.

Joel Kitamirike

Kitamirike was born in Kampala, Uganda, in 1984 and came to England when he was six years old.

Joshua Roman

Along with his siblings Roman frequently travels to Uganda where they perform for thousands of schoolchildren, playing in hospitals, camps and refugee centers in Kampala and Gulu.

Joy Doreen Biira

In early 2008, Joy Doreen Biira was employed as a week day Morning Show co-host at NBS Television with Shawn Kimuli, broadcasting at the network's headquarters in the capital Kampala, Uganda.

Kampala

Kampala is said to be built on seven hills, although this is not quite accurate.

The city is divided into five boroughs that oversee local planning: Kampala Central Division, Kawempe Division, Makindye Division, Nakawa Division and Lubaga Division.

There is also Tank Hill, where the water storage tanks that supply the city are located.

The Ahmadiyya Central Mosque in Kampala is the central mosque of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, which has six minarets and can hold up to 9,000 worshippers.

Mulago Hospital massacre

The Mulago Hospital massacre occurred at the Mulago Government African Hospital in Kampala, Uganda on July 28, 1950.

New Democratic Party of Manitoba candidates, 1990 Manitoba provincial election

Lord relocated to Kampala, Uganda in 2004, where she helped in fundraising for orphans and worked with the National Union of Persons with Disabilities through Volunteer Services Oversees (VSO).

Phil Wachsmann

Phil Wachsmann (born 5 August 1944) is an African avant-garde jazz/jazz fusion violinist born in Kampala, Uganda, probably better known for having founded his own group Chamberpot.

Ray Beachey

On graduation, Beachey took a position lecturing at Makerere University in Kampala, where many of his students would later become government ministers in Uganda and Kenya.

Scott Lively

In March 2009, Lively, along with evangelical activists Don Schmierer and Caleb Lee Brundidge, arrived in Kampala to give a series of talks.

Stodacom

Stodacom's South Africa's operations are carried out by offices in Kampala, Pretoria, and Lagos.

Stodacom is a corporate investigations and risk consultancy firm based in Kampala, Uganda working from around 23 African countries direct.

Trans-African Highway network

The name Trans-African Highway and its variants are not in wide common usage outside of planning and development circles, and currently one does not see them signposted as such or labelled on maps, except in Kenya and Uganda where the MombasaNairobiKampalaFort Portal section (or the Kampala–Kigali feeder road) of Trans-African Highway 8 is sometimes referred to as the "Trans-Africa Highway".

Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos

She was a member of the Committee on Commonwealth Membership, which presented its report on potential changes in membership criteria for the Commonwealth of Nations at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2007 in Kampala, Uganda.

Yusef Sozi

Yusef Sozi born 20 December 1981 in Kampala, Uganda is a rugby league player for Sheffield Eagles in National League One.


2010 Victoria Cup

Following the terrorist incident at Uganda's home ground, the Kyadondo Rugby Club, in Kampala the day after their last game against Kenya in Nairobi it was decided to cancel the match.

Augustine Mahiga

In an interview on June 16, 2011, Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs of Italy, Alfredo Mantica, expressed support for Prime Minister Mohamed's position with regard to the Kampala agreement.

Battle of Kampala Hill

The Battle of Kampala Hill was fought between Catholics and Protestants on 24 January 1892 at Kampala Hill in what is now Uganda.

Brian Barron

Based in Nairobi from 1977 onwards, covering all of Africa as chief correspondent, Barron covered the end of the regime of Idi Amin, and was the first foreign correspondent to reach an abandoned Kampala, filing a report from the headquarters of the State Research Bureau, Amin's secret police.

Church of Uganda

They, along with others who arrived later, were based in the court of the Kabaka of Buganda near present day Kampala.

Daudi Kintu Wasajja

He accompanied his brother at crisis talks between the Kingdom of Buganda and the Republic of Uganda in September 2009 called after rioting in Kampala over the status of the renegade Kayunga District and the closure of a royalist Buganda radio station.

Geoffrey Francis Archer

However, due to doubts that the local Ugandans could handle higher education the establishment at Makerere Hill in Kampala only gave training for low-level clerical work.

Godwin Abbe

At a meeting of Commonwealth Heads of Government in Kampala, Uganda in November 2007, Abbe met British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and asked for assistance in restructuring the police force, which was suffering from low morale due to poor welfare, inadequate training and lack of vital work tools.

Jean-Claude Kavumbagu

On 11 July 2010, Kampala, Uganda was attacked by suicide bombers from Al-Shabaab, a Somali Islamist militia, killing 74 and injuring 70.

John Chrysostom Muyingo

Muyingo was born on 22 February 1960, to the late John Chrysostom Ssekidde of Kakoola Village, Bamunanika County, Luwero District and Victoria Nakiwala, of Naakulabye, Lubaga Division, in Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city.

Kampala Capital City Authority

Kampala is divided into five divisions, each headed by a popularly elected Mayor.

KCCA

Kampala Capital City Authority, the legal administrative entity responsible for running the day-to-day affairs of Kampala, the capital city of Uganda in East Africa

Kitikifumba

In 2011, the government openened a brand new Shimoni Primary Teachers College, which had been relocated from Kampala, on land that now accommodates Kampala Intercontinental Hotel.

Lukia Isanga Nakadama

She attended Nabisunsa Girls School, a public middle and high school, located in Nakawa Division in northeastern Kampala, the capital city of Uganda.

Luzira

It is best known for the country's main prison, Luzira Maximum Security Prison, which has seen significant redevelopment thanks to the work of African Prisons Project, a charity based in the UK and Kampala.

Mackay Memorial College

Mackay College is a secondary school located in Nateete, one of Kampala's suburbs, in Lubaga Division, Kampala District, Uganda.

Mahmood Mamdani

He was educated at the Government Primary School in Dar es Salaam, Government Primary School in Masaka, K.S.I. Primary School in Kampala, Shimoni and Nakivubo Government Primary Schools in Kampala and at Old Kampala Senior Secondary School.

Margaret Zziwa

She is also a founder-member of St. Francis Choir at St. Jude Catholic Church at Naguru, another Kampala suburb.

MUBS

Makerere University Business School - The School of Business of Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda

Munyonyo

Munyonyo is an area on the northern shores of Lake Victoria and is part of the metropolitan area of the city of Kampala, in Makindye Division.

Robert Kayanja

Robert Kayanja is the founder and Senior Pastor of the Miracle Centre Cathedral, a megachurch in Kampala, the capital of Uganda.

Seth Berkley

Berkley played a role in helping to develop Uganda’s National AIDS Control programs, and served as an attending internal medicine physician at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.

Stodacom

Stodacom is headquartered in Kampala, and with offices in Lagos, Kinshasa, Kigali, Lusaka, Cairo, Algiers, Pretoria, and Accra.

Taveta, Kenya

The market is fueled in part by Taveta's distinctive rail connection through Voi with the Mombasa-Nairobi-Kampala line, built by the British during the era of the Kenya protectorate and celebrated in the 1996 film The Ghost and the Darkness.

Uganda Insurance Commission

According to its website, the mandate of the commission is "to supervise and regulate the insurance industry in Uganda." Commission offices are located in Kampala; the position of Commissioner of Insurance is currently vacant.

Water supply and sanitation in Uganda

In 2007 it provided services to 1.8 million people out of 2.5 million in Kampala, Jinja/Lugazi, Entebbe, Tororo, Mbale, Lira, Gulu, Masaka, Mbarara, Kabale, Kasese and Fort Portal, Bushenyi/Ishaka, Soroti Arua, Masindi, Malaba, Iganga, Hoima, and Mubende.

Women At Work International

Women At Work International (WAWI) is non profit organization located in Kampala, Uganda found by Halima Namakula.