The story of Ron Kawamara, Uganda’s ‘father’ of e-commerce  The story of e-commerce in Uganda, in its truest sense, can never be complete or perhaps even start without the name Ron Kawamara. He left Uganda in his early teens to get a good education in the United States and then the United Kingdom. Once he had secured the knowledge, he came back home to start vending food- but on the internet. That was in 2014. Eight years later, he has now bloomed into a tech and hospitality entrepreneur you can bank on. And the e-commerce dream continues to unfurl.

For starters, who is Ron Kawamara? Where does your story start?  Ron is a husband and a father to a 4-year-old daughter. I was born in Fort Portal to a family of nine children. I attended Buhinga Primary School in Fort Portal and later Ntare School for my O’Level. After my S.4 exams, I moved to Los Angeles, California where I completed college at Los Angeles Valley College as valedictorian. I enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Development Economics, and went on to earn a Master of Science in African…

by Muhereza Kyamutetera

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