User:Kakwenza Rukirabashaija

Kakwenza Rukirabashaija. Ugandan author, philanthropist and human rights activist born on 1st November 1988. Age 32 years He was born in Kebisoni, Rukungiri district. He spends his free time reading and learning about different cultures in the world and sensitizing about the reading culture in children with motion “A child who reads will be an adult who thinks”. He is the founder of Kakwenza education foundation (www.kakwenzaeducationfund.org), a non-profit organization based in Rukungiri district, western Uganda to sensitize about reading culture, provide scholastic materials, fees and to equip needy and orphans with farming and computer skills. He authored his debut novel “The Greedy Barbarian” (2020). A work of political fiction that speaks truth to power which many readers relate it to be a satire on president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s prolonged stay in presidency, corruption, vote rigging, unfulfilled promises, crackdown on dissidents, dictatorship and incompetency. He was arrested from his home by the Chieftaincy of Military intelligence agents on 13th April 2020 and copies of the book confiscated. He was taken to Mbuya military barracks in the heart of Kampala and tortured for seven days without access by family and his lawyer, Eron Kizza. A writ of Habeas Corpus was issued by the high court in Kampala, and on Monday 20th April, he was produced before grade one magistrate in Iganga district in Eastern Uganda where he was charged with fabricated case of doing an act which is likely to spread corona virus. He is the first Ugandan author to be arrested for publishing a political fiction book. Family: Kakwenza Rukirabashaija is married to Eva Kakwenza with four children; Mutetsi Kakwenza 10-years, Nina Kakwenza Kayitetsi 7-years, Mugisha Kakwenza 4-years and Siima Kakwenza Nyinaboona 2-years. Education. Kyambogo University- Bachelor of Development studies (2012) University of Cape Town- Master in Journalism (2015) Cavendish University Uganda- Bachelor of Laws (Continuing) Mentors. Dr. Kizza Besigye, Barack Obama and John Grisham. Greedy barbarian: When Bekunda and her toddler son, Kayibanda, cross an international border, they are in dire straits and desperately need sanctuary, human kindness and divine favor. The new country gives them sanctuary, the natives show them kindness and the local spirits do the miraculous on their behalf. But can Kayibanda be as gracious to his new country as it has been to him? can he overcome his profoundly flawed nature, which appears to be hereditary?