Conservationist and veterinarian Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka has been on a decades-long mission to save critically endangered mountain gorillas in Uganda. As CNN reported, she fell in love with the ...
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Mulangira Hassan Muhammad Wasswa, a care taker at the Mende-kalema tombs displays Ssekabaka Nuhu Rashid Kalema’s walking stick and spear. Photo by Michael Kakumirizi Combination of religion and ...
In many aspects, the late Rhoda Kalema’s life mirrored the story of Katharine Graham. The latter transformed The Washington Post into a newspaper of record and reckoning, hurdling gender barriers in ...
GLADYS KALEMA-ZIKUSOKA: I grew up in an urban area, Kampala, so it was really about creating experiences for myself. We were living next door to the Cuban ambassador to Uganda, and he had a vervet ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. In early June, rangers discovered the mutilated body of Rafiki, an endangered silverback mountain gorilla living at Bwindi Impenetrable National ...
WHEN Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka became Uganda’s first wildlife vet in 1995, there were just 650 wild mountain gorillas in the world, 300 of which were in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in south-western ...
In the lush mountains of western Uganda, tourists come to the dense forests in search of rare and exotic animals. What they don’t anticipate is coming in contact with some of the world’s rarest ...