Extraordinary Ugandans

Dr. Catherine Kibirige’s parents were some of the most accomplished Ugandans in post-independence Uganda. Her mother, Dr. Rebecca Nyonyintono, received a partial bursary to go to Gayaza High School.  She went on to Makerere University and then received a Carnegie Foundation grant to study for her PhD in Sociology from the State University of New York in Buffalo.  Dr. Nyonyintono was one of the first Ugandan women to receive a Ph.D.  Catherine’s father, Mr Samuel Kibirige, went to Kings College Budo and then got a first-class, Summa Cum Laude, degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Swansea, University of Wales…