| Enduring
art, sport at St. Henry's Kitovu |
| Perched up high on a hill
is St. Henry’s College Kitovu, which celebrates
84 years of success this year. This Catholic founded
school in Masaka district was started in 1922 by the
White Fathers, although it was later picked up by the
Brothers of Christian Instruction. |
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| The caning
and footballing Kibuli Secondary School |
| In 1978, at 36 years old,
Abbasi Kaawaase Mukasa took over as headmaster of Kibuli
Secondary School. Unknown to him, he was going to serve
the school for 24 years to come, until his retirement
in 2002. |
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| Aggrey Memorial,
oh Aggrey Memorial! |
| Looking at Aggrey Memorial,
not many miles from the city in Bunamwaya, it is hard
to believe that this school was once one of the academic
notables. |
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| Makerere
College School known by its works |
| There is nothing particularly
striking about Makerere College School. It has the basics
a school should have: classes, laboratories and dormitories.
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| St. Leo's
Kyegobe strives for excellence |
| Under heavy dark clouds,
pregnant with rain, St. Leo’s Kyegobe’s
buildings bring colour to what would have been a dull
hill. |
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| Nyakasura
School; The lion is still awake |
| What kind of girls are these?
They have hairy faces, deep voices and they walk like
men. Moving farther into the school, I realize these
are boys. |
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| St. Joseph's
College Ombachi; riding the tide of achievement |
All the way from Terego County
in Arua, a young boy’s dream of joining St. Joseph’s
College Ombachi was considered ludicrous. Sam Andema’s
headmaster at Cilio Primary School advised his parents
to make him give up his Ombachi quest.
Their efforts were futile. |
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| Sir Samuel
Baker still hanging on |
| A few kilometres from Gulu
town, off Kitgum Road, is an avenue of old tall trees
that leads to the once greatest school of the North.
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| Mt. St. Mary's
Namagunga: Bevy of grace and success |
| As I walk around the school
compound, memories flood my head like 1996 was only
yesterday when I was a student at Mt. St. Mary’s
College Namagunga. |
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| Nabumali
High School: From glory to ashes |
| While some senior four and senior six
students at Nabumali High School in Mbale district were
sitting their district mock examinations at around 11a.m.
on Thursday, August 10, another group of candidates
was orchestrating an attempt to burn their embattled
school bursar, Jackson Tomboto Wakholi’s car. |
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| The flailing
academic icon of Teso |
| Teso College, Aloet in Soroti district
may only have just gone past the 50-year mark but a
summary list of its most prominent old boys reads more
like a list of the ‘who is who’ of Teso
and its neighbouring regions. |
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| Busoga College
Mwiri; 'Ghost' on the hill |
| After the Bugembe bus stop, the road
gets dustier and the bumps more gruelling, but the boda-boda
rider does not relent. He keeps on riding faster, with
the dust rising higher and higher. |
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Ntare 'the only' School: laissez-faire attitude pays
off |
| Despite popular thinking that freedom
breeds academic failure in students, Ntare School has
managed to have both its share of cake and eat it too. |
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| Mityana Secondary
School; ninety-eight and counting |
| It took approximately 20 minutes from
Mityana town to get to the school, which has taught
six Ugandan bishops and three katikkiros (Buganda prime
ministers). |
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Handsome, hardworking gentlemen from Kisubi
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Of the schools I have
visited, I have not seen beauty such as I did at St.
Mary’s College Kisubi (SMACK).
Perched on top of Kisubi hill, the school gate opens
to a wonder world of green grass and trees, as well
as randomly selected flowers. |
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| Gayaza,
where ladies sprout |
Imagine a school so practical
that on arrival in S.1, one is given a piece of material
to make her own uniform!
This means that she has to sew her sleeves, badge, hem
and yoke onto the skeleton of a material, which will
be her uniform after the first week of school. |
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Timeless Mengo |
‘Akwana
Akira Ayomba’
Beyond the busy and noisy Hoima Road
is Mengo Senior School, which many have heard of but
do not know its exact location. Yet no school in Uganda
tells of the change in time, and still manages to
stand firm like the oldest school in Uganda. |
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| The
kings'college |
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The
core of success ‘Gakyali mabaga’
Standing on this hill, I can
understand why Semivule was spellbound. The breeze
and the view of Lake Victoria have the beauty, which
probably filled young Semivule with the confidence
to achieve his dream. |
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