John Mwesigwa Robin Nagenda (25 April 1938 – 4 March 2023) was a Ugandan writer, political figure, sportsman, a man who gave guidance when consulted and indeed he loved Namutamba in Mityana District.
Senior Presidential adviser on Media and Public Relations John Nagenda was buried at his home Farm in Buloba along Mityana Highway on Tuesday, March 7.
Born on April 25, 1938 in Rwanda, the former cricketer played in One Day International (ODI) in the 1975 World Cup for East Africa. He also appeared in one first-class cricket match in England in 1975, and played cricket for Uganda.
Nagenda, who lived in England for more than 10 years before returning to Uganda, has been a writer and newspaper columnist since the 1960s.
He attended Namutamba Demonstration School, King’s College Budo and Kigezi High School before joining Makerere University for a degree in English.
He once worked in Nairobi at the Oxford University Press before travelling to the United States of America, where he lived and criticised Ugandan governments at that time for years.
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