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 KATIKAMU SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST SECONDARY SCHOOL    Background 

Katikamu SDA secondary school is an initiative of four gallant men, Eriya Wamala, Hosea Kakumba , Phillip Kawesa and then area Gombolola Chief,Zakayo Kasozi. These four men fulfilled the objective of the Uganda Field Executive Director and went ahead to start a school “..for the good of their children…” Thus it was after under these humble beginnings that a school was born with Eriya Wamala as the first head head teacher.This gentleman was transfered to other places but returned to this same school several times.He was replaced with Elder Mwanje who later became a pastor, and at his death he was burried on this same hill of the school on the way to the the boy’s dormitory. Onesmus Muwanga followed in 1938 to 1939, then Kiberu Yokana Krisestom. As education developed in Uganda, the school became a Junior Secondary school offering education up to the equivalent of primary eight. Pastor Kyambadde B. Stanely took over from 1954-1967. He is now a retired Pastor and a former Executive Director of the Uganda Union of S.D.A.

In 1966, the system of eight years of primary education was phased out, and so Katikamu became a Senior Secondary School under the headship of late Pastor Kasozi Tamale in 1968. This is the same year that the present secondary school was born. Pastor Tamale led the school up to 1969, And when he was appointed the Education Director to Uganda Field, elder Ssenkumba Darlington who led the school through those tumultuous years of the famous Luwero triangle guerrilla war, replaced him, from 1970 upto 1985. Currently Mr.Ssenkumba is one of the administrators of the Najjanankumbi Young Christian School.

At the end of the protracted five year war in 1986, the late Mr.Sekayita George led the school up to 1987. During these years both the primary and secondary school were being run together under one headship. However, in 1988, there were managerial reogarnisation and the headship of the two school was separeted such that the primary school was led by Mr.Kayizzi Kataka Eriyasafu and Mr.Ssegawa Dalton Elijah was appointed as Headmaster of the secondary. He led the school from 1988 up to 2002 May when he went to head MerryLand High School and handed over the school leadership to Headmaster Mr.Kyewalyanga Samuel who retired in 2008. The current headmaster is Mr. Nyangoma Joseph a former student at the school.