Today in History; November 13, 1961

The Pope appointed the Most Rev. Archbishop Joseph Kiwanuka to become a member of the International Marian Academy, one of the pontifical academies established in Rome. 

Archbishop Kiwanuka was the first African bishop in Sub-Saharan Africa

He was also appointed a member of the permanent committee for the organization of the International Marian congress. His appointment was sponsored by the president of the permanent committee, the most Rev. Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec and Primate of Canada.

Like all pontifical academies, the international Marian Academy has a Cardinal – Protector in this case, Cardinal Ottaviani.

Then and Now

In the colonial era there were three categories of roads in Uganda; central government roads, local/districts roads (which were responsibility of the state), Kabaka of Buganda roads, and community roads.

Uganda had 9,000 miles of murram roads and 738 miles of bitumen roads in December 1961. Today, Uganda’s road network comprises about 65,800 paved and gravel roads of which 20,000km are national, 13,000km district, 2,800km urban and 30,000km of community roads.