Professor Livingstone Luboobi, Vice Chancellor of Makerere University, has confirmed the appointment of Kalwant Ajimal as Special Envoy of Makerere University Abroad. Professor Luboobi says in the letter, “Makerere has taken a fundamental revision of the University’s approach in serving and learning from the community and broader public and private sectors and thus the establishment of the Makerere University Private Sector Forum (MUPSF) to bridge the missing linkage. You will be required to attract the necessary partners on board to come and strengthen the cause of MUPSF which is taking lead in that aspect.”
I am trilled and honoured to accept this invitation from Professor Luboobi and an institution that gave hundreds of graduates like me so much. My task, amongst many others, will be to generate new projects and partnerships in the United Kingdom, Europe and North America in the first instance. One of the key actions will be to restore links with hundreds of Asian alumni who fled the country in 1972. They all carry immense goodwill for Makerere and for Uganda as a whole. This goodwill is a positive force which can be converted to bring tangible benefit to the university.
Professor Luboobi’s letter also contains many other important aspects of vision, policy and search for practical solutions. These observations are presented as a special page which is provided above and entitled ’Analysis of Needs’.
Kalwant Ajimal
