2005 Stanhope Centre and LSE Crisis States Research Programme

Henry MUKASA, 32, received a BA degree in Mass Communications from Makerere in 1998 where he focused on International Relations and Development Economics. He has had a wide range of work experience in journalism beginning as a trainee news reporter in the Current Affairs section at radio Uganda in 1996. Henry then moved on to Crusader newspaper and later the Monitor where he was Assistant Editor of Leisure/Upcountry. He briefly served as the Co-ordinator of the Buganda Kingdom Education and IT Project from 2001-2002 and has now returned to journalism as a Reporter on the Political desk of the New Vision newspaper--which was established with the assistance of Museveni’s government and has now grown into one of the largest papers in the country.