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Freda Nanziri Kase Mubanda (who died on December 16, 2020) was a Ugandan politician elected to the ninth Parliament of Uganda representing the Masaka District. She worked as the Chief of Acquisition at United Nations Library in New York. She served as an Ambassador in Moscow, Russia and Canada. She was an advisor to Uganda’s fifth President QC Godfrey Binaisa.

Education Background
She attended Kabwoko Girls School for primary school which is found in Kirumba Subcounty, Rakai District in Uganda. She joined Gayaza High School which is located in Gayaza town, Gayaza Zone B Local Council One (LC1), Kasangati town council, Kyadondo County, Wakiso District, approximately 19 kilometers (12 miles) northeast of Kampala, Uganda's capital city. She later to Makerere University.

Personal life
Kase Mubanda was born on August 30, 1943 in Buganda Royalty to Mzee Yokana Kase, Omukulu Wesiga and Manjeri Mukebiita. Herself royalty from the Kingdom of Karagwe in present-day Bukoba, in Northern Tanzania. She was a second born in a family of ten. In 2020, she died at Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya where she was receiving treatment after reportedly testing positive for COVID-19. She loved discovering new places, traveling to at least 50 countries. She was articulate in English and French. She was also an information scientist, an avid reader, and a fierce scrabble player. In August 1965, she married to late Eldad Kanyanya Wapenyi who was former Ambassador to Paris and the United Nations. Later in life, She remarried Alfred Mubanda Sr, a former State Minister for Foreign affairs, a former foreign service officer, and a former Member of Parliament for Busiro South.

Political life
In the ninth Parliament, Kase Mubanda served as the woman Member of Parliament under the National Resistance Movement(NRM) but lost in the 2016 elections to Mary Babirye Kabanda of the Democratic Party.

She served as an Ambassador in Moscow, Russia, and later served as Ambassador to Canada. She was an advisor to Uganda’s Fourth President QC Godfrey Binaisa. She later served as a member of the UN Peace Corps and had observer status at the elections in Cambodia and Namibia. Under her husband Mr. Alfred Mubanda, she became a Councillor and speaker for the LC3 council of Nakawuka, in Busiro South Constituency.

She championed women’s rights, including but not limited to equal estate rights for women. She was involved in education reform in her own constituent Masaka. She also established a scholarship fund at Harvard University in her daughter’s name.