Ugandan Diaspora Inspiration, Part 1, Interview of NASA Flight Director Kwatsi by Ronnie Mayanja 5

www.ugandandiaspora.com ~ Part 1 of An interview of NASA’s first Black Flight Director, Ugandan National, Kwatsi Alibaruho ~ Join us as we celebrate Uganda’s Success Stories in the Diaspora. The

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Vote Miss Yvette Kibwika as this year’s Miss Africa USA Pageant Candidate 0

Please  support Miss Yvette Kibwika as this year’s Miss Africa USA Pageant Candidate. Miss Kibwika is currently our Miss UNAA Queen. Please visithttp://www.missafricaunitedstates.com/ and click on Finalist tab to vote for

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Honoring Friends of Uganda ~ Photographer Gloria Baker Feinstein, from Kansas City, Missouri 2

Meet Gloria Baker Feinstein, who through photography, has given so much of herself to Uganda. I grew up in Kentucky, where it seems I was always taking pictures. I moved

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Ugandan Embassies World Wide 14

This is a list of Ugandan Embassies and their locations around the world. If your embassy is not listed, do please contact us with the details so we can add

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Ugandan-born Dr. John Sentamu, as Archbishop of York, is the UK’s first black archbishop 42

Dr John Sentamu is the UK’s first black archbishop and the Church of England’s second most senior clergyman. His appointment as the Archbishop of York in June 2005 was a

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Derreck Kayongo, a Ugandan is CNN HERO, TOP 10 2011, Global Soap Project CEO 10

Derreck Kayongo’s journey from child refugee to fearless visionary is filled with moments of inspiration (along with the benefits of good, old-fashioned sweat equity) that make him one of the

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Uganda Investment Authority brings you The Diaspora Social Networking Event, December 29th 0

The Diaspora Social Networking Event, December 2011 ~ Foreword by the Executive Director, Uganda Investment Authority, Prof. Maggie Kigozi Since 2004, the Uganda Investment Authority has organised Diaspora Summits every

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Ugandan Kwatsi Alibaruho: In Control as NASA Flight Director 7

Illinois native and Ugandan National, Kwatsi Alibaruho attributes his success as a NASA space shuttle flight director to a strong parental influence on academics, tenacity and hard work, and a

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Justice Julia Sebutinde, University of Edinburgh Honorary Degree Recipient 3

Justice Julia Sebutinde graduated from Makerere University in Uganda in 1977. In 1978 she obtained the Diploma in Legal Practice from the Kampala Law Development Centre. Later that year she

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Professor Samuel B. Mukasa, a Ugandan, Named New CEPS Dean, University of New Hampshire 8

Professor Samuel B. Mukasa, chair of the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Michigan, has been named the new dean of the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences

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Rose Nanyonga, An Anti-Child Sacrifice Advocate and Ambassador for the Poor 5

In 1989, as a young girl, Rose Nanyonga was forced to leave her family’s village in Uganda. She was alone and, as a female in Uganda without family protection, she

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Secretary Clinton Delivers Remarks at the Global Diaspora Forum 2

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks at the Global Diaspora Forum, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 17, 2011. Here are some

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Imani – Ugandan Film Director Caroline Kamya Interview 2

Imani vibrantly captures three vignettes of life in modern day Uganda: A child soldier returning to the parents who could not protect him, a woman fighting to get her wrongly

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Dr. Frederick Balagadde, Ph.D., is Co-Inventor of Microfluidic Device 23

Dr. Frederick Balagadde, a Ugandan National, is working on a microfluidics technology that could revolutionize bioscience the way microchips transformed computing. This easily portable technology has, among numerous applications, the

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Ugandan National, LTC Joseph D’costa, A US Army Commander of 1st Battalion, 378th Infantry Regiment 18

FORT BENNING, Georgia |  As a boy growing up in Uganda, Joseph D’costa became inspired by America’s role in World War II and told his teacher he wanted to go

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Rachel N. MAYANJA is UN Secretary General’s Special Adviser 7

Ugandan National Ms. Rachel Mayanja, the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women since November 2004, is a long-serving career international civil servant with vast experience in

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Ugandan Lukiah Mulumba, US Air Force Officer at rank of Captain 141

When high school sweethearts Lukiah Nakabembe and Abdullah Mulumba moved to the US and started a life together, neither knew of any sickle cell disease sufferers in their families. The

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Ugandan Diaspora Social Networking Event 2011 19

Press Release: Celebrating Ugandans in the Diaspora ~ The Ugandan Diaspora Social Networking Event 2011 ~ 29th,  December 2011 On December 29th, 2011, and for the very first time in our Country’s

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Kampala Serena Hotel ~ Ugandan Diaspora Social Networking Event Venue 6

Kampala Serena Hotel is the Ugandan Diaspora Social Networking Event Venue Please mark the date on your travel calendar and we will see you at Kampala Serena Hotel on December

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NASA’s 1st Black Mission-Control Flight Director is UGANDAN 21

The first African-American to lead Mission Control is working shifts as a flight director for the International Space Station. Kwatsi Alibaruho completed more than 700 hours of training and began

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