Semakula Kiwanuka
Ugandan historian, diplomat, author and researcher
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Matia Semakula Mulumba Kiwanuka (born 16 September 1939, in Mityana) is a Ugandan historian, diplomat, writer and researcher.
16 September 1939
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| Born | Matia Semakula Mulumba Kiwanuka 16 September 1939 Mityana, Uganda |
| Occupations | Historian, Researcher, Diplomat |
| Employer | Government of Uganda |
| Title | President of The Uganda Society |
| Term | 1967–1968 |
| Predecessor | S. J. K Baker |
| Successor | J. L. Dixon |
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He was named Uganda's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in 1996 and in 2000, he was the chairman of the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) at the United Nations[1][2]
He was appointed Uganda's Minister of State for Luwero Triangle in 2003 and later in 2005, State Minister for Finance, Planning and Economic Development (Investment)[3][4]
He also served as the 34th president of the Uganda Society between 1967 and 1968.
Background and education
Hailing from Mityana, Semakula Kiwanuka attended Namilyango College between 1951 and 1955.[5][6] Under the relationship between Makerere University and the University of London, he received a Bachelor of Arts in history, and in 1965, a doctorate in history from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. In 1979, he completed a post-graduate diploma in development economics at Balliol College, Oxford.[2]
Career
Academia
Starting as a special lecturer at Makerere University between 1964 and 1968, Semakula Kiwanuka then became a senior lecturer within the same institution. With sponsorship from the United States Department of State, he then was Visiting Associate Professor in African History at Northwestern and Duke Universities (1968–1970).[2]
Later he served as dean of the Faculty of Arts and professor and head of the History Department at Makerere University (1973–1976) and a number of academic appointments thereafter, such as visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge (August 1977 – April 1981); visiting fellow at St. Edmunds College, University of Cambridge; and senior visitor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.[2] He was the director of studies at the University of Calabar in Nigeria from 1981 to 1985.[2]
He later worked as the dean of the School of Post-Graduate Studies and Research at Makerere University between 1991 and 1994.[7]
Diplomat
In 1996, he was appointed Permanent Representative of Uganda to the United Nations.[2] Semakula Kiwanuka then served as Uganda's ambassador to the United Arab Emirates based in Abu Dhabi between 2009 and 2013[8][9]