Dani Wadada Nabudere, Ugandan academic, died he was 79.

Dani Wadada Nabudere was a Ugandan academic, author, political scientist and development specialist died he was 79.. He was a professor at the Islamic University and Executive Director of the Marcus Garvey Pan-Afrikan Institute, Mbale. He was a barrister and former member of the Uganda National Liberation Front government. 

(15 December 1932 – 9 November 2011)^[1][2] 

Career

Nabudere obtained the degree of LLB (London) in 1963 and was admitted as a barrister at law, Lincolns Inn, London, in the same year. He was previously Associate Professor at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Visiting Professor at the University of Zimbabwe. Professor Nabudere was Minister of Justice in 1979 and Minister of Culture, Community Development and Rehabilitation in 1979–1980 in the UNLF Interim Government of Uganda. He was President of the African Association of Political Science from 1983 to 1985 and Vice-President of the International Science Association (IPSA) from 1985 to 1988. He was engaged in a collaboration arrangement with the University of South Africa in joint research projects under the umbrella theme of "Reclaiming the Future".^[3] He was the executive director and principal of the Marcus Garvey Pan-Afrikan Institute (MPAI), Mbale, Uganda. Over the last ten years, Nabudere was working on setting up grassroots organisations to assist rural communities and raise their voices over issues that concern their lives.^[4]


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