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Timothy Makubuya

Timothy Makubuya (born Makubuya Mikando Timothy) is a Ugandan-born academic, scholar and musomesa (meaning teacher). He is from Buganda Kingdom of the Ganda people of Uganda. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Education in the College of Education at University of Missouri- St. Louis. Teaching at University of Missouri- St. Louis since 2012, the same institution where he earned his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). His doctoral dissertation was titled, Health Risk Behaviors and Body Mass Index Percentiles.

Early life and Education

Makubuya was born in Masajja, a small village in the outskirts of Kampala, Uganda. His father worked as a librarian at Makerere University in Kampala, the same African institution where Makubuya received his first bachelor’s degree. Enrolling at Masajja Primary School for his nursery and primary school in 1986., the same year that Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, a Pan Africanist took power in Uganda. Makubuya attended school 5 miles away from home, and resorted to running, which eventually elicited his athletic prowess. Makubuya graduated in the top one percent of his class at Masajja Primary School, and went on to Lubiri Secondary School. At this English Christian missionary-founded and government aided- school, Makubuya continued to excel in academics and athletics. He later joined St. John’s Senior Secondary School, Bweyogerere, where he graduated at the top of his class in the 1999 Uganda Certificate of Education. Makubuya later joined Old Kampala Secondary School, the same high school that Rwanda’s Paul Kagame attended. He graduated in 2001. During his high school vacation, he was recruited to teach Mathematics at a primary school in Ggangu, Uganda.

After his high school vacation, Makubuya was accepted to study on a Government of Uganda scholarship, not only due to merit, but also due to his father’s employee education assistance program at Makerere University. He was enlisted to study Environmental Management in the Faculty of Arts at Makerere University in Kampala, a program that wasn’t his initial choice. He earned his B.A. in absentia, having accepted an undergraduate athletic scholarship in the U.S. His undergraduate dissertation, "The Effect of Road Construction on People's Livelihoods. A Case Study of Kabuusu Nyanama-Zzana road in Wakiso and Kampala districts, is published by Makerere University Press. A fervent lover of sports and exercise, and having been inspired, scouted and recruited by an African American Coach, Curtis Lee Pittman, he was connected to St. Louis., and enrolled in a B.S. Sports Medicine at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis, Missouri. At MoBap, he also earned a M.S. in Sport Management. During his OPT, Makubuya worked as a mathematics teaching assistant for 6th- 8th grade at Ladue Middle School, in St. Louis, Missouri.

Prior to his master’s graduation, he enrolled in a Ph.D., under the tutelage of Kathleen Marie Haywood, a former Interim Dean in the College of Education, and now Emeritus Professor. Dr. Makubuya, earned his Ph.D. in 2016., at a ceremony attended by his mother and older brother. Both operate a private nursery and primary school, Najja Modern Primary School. Both are trained and licensed teachers.

Higher Education Practice

Makubuya has worked in higher education as a track and filed/cross country coach, teaching assistant, adjunct instructor, assistant teaching professor, and now a tenure-track assistant professor of education. Dr. Makubuya’s primary research is in physical activity, psychosocial wellbeing and their intersections with health risk behaviors.

Informal African Education

Makubuya’s father, Owek. Godfrey Semiti Kigozi is a former Katikiro of the Ffumbe Clan, one of the initial clans of the Buganda Kingdom. During his reign as Katikiro, Makubuya worked as his personal secretary.