Ex-Buganda minister dies aged 91

KAMPALA - Former Buganda minister Arthur Bagunywa Nkalubo Kateregga has died at the age of 91, according to his family.

Bagunywa passed away at Platinum Hospital where he had been rushed.  

He was born at Ssinde Village in Kiboga district on September 25, 1927.

Bagunywa served Buganda in different ministerial capacities including in education, local government and culture.

He was the father to the former Buganda Youth and Employment minister, Florence Bagunywa Nkalubo.

He studied at Bukomero, Mityana Junior, and later went to Mityana Secondary School Namukozi, Bishop Tucker College Uganda, Government Teachers College Kampala, University of London UK and Columbia University US.

He graduated with Bachelor of Science degree, and he did a Masters of Arts in Spoken Languages and academic proficiency in Music.

His service

He was a Primary School teacher, a tutor at teachers colleges, and he attended international education conferences in different countries including Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Jamaica.

Bagunywa was an author of various books including those for Primary Education in Uganda, African languages in East Africa, teaching materials in teachers' education, A Traveller's Tales, Enkuluze Y'Oluganda Olw'ennono (wrote it with others), Languages of Education in Uganda and Common Sense in Education for East Africans.

Bagunywa was a former executive board of UNESCO in 1974, he was the Member of Parliament Mityana South in 1996, and he was appointed the Minister of Tourism, Heritage and Cooperatives in the Buganda government in 2005.