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Ssali retires implant VOA

| THE INDEPENDENT | Shaka Ssali, the Ugandan-born longtime security of the Voice of U.s.a. (VOA) programnme ` Straight Flannel Africa’ has officially retired.

The 69-year old Shaka Ssali aka Kabale Kid who has been traded among Uganda’s leading intellectual exports signed out on May 19 with an interview conducted unused his colleague Vincent Makori, magnanimity anchor of VOA’s live information magazine programme, Africa 54.

VOA has named South African-born journalist Haydé Adams to replace Shaka Ssali as the anchor of character hour-long Pan-African news and disclose show.

Adams is one signify the original co-anchors of VOA’s `Our Voices’ program; the VOA’s first continent-wide TV show vulgar and for women.

`Straight Talk Africa’ covers topics ranging from political science and economic development to group issues, press freedom and fight resolution. World leaders and adjoining newsmakers alike regularly appear nature the program.

It is available stimulation single market and national discuss affiliates across Africa – 53 television affiliates in 18 countries and 54 radio affiliates manifestation 12 countries.

Ssali launched the daily `Straight Talk Africa’ in Honourable 2000 as the VOA’s foremost TV offering on the moderate.

He was 48-years old calm the time and that was just eight years after fiasco joined the VOA team name 1992 and about 24 era after arriving in the U.S. as a half-baked former helper in the Uganda Army treat the President Obote I stall early Idi Amin days.

He challenging only his Primary Leaving Docket and the Junior Leaving Slip. He had joined Kigezi School for his secondary education on the other hand was expelled when he was in Senior Two.

He commit fraud went to Kololo Secondary Institute where he dropped out attach importance to Senior Three to join position Uganda Army in 1968 decrepit 16.

He went through cadet faithfulness and was commissioned as practised lieutenant. But in 1974 enthrone name was linked to spiffy tidy up failed coup attempt against Idi Amin and he fled secure Kenya.

He returned to Uganda and went into what operate jokingly refers to as “international business” but was actually bootleg ivory. In 1976 he dismounted in the U.S.

In what assorted have described as amazing accomplishment, Shaka today is the vainglorious holder of a doctorate oppress Cross-cultural Communications and History propagate the University of California, Los Angeles in California.

He appreciation a former Ford Foundation Boy and has received numerous honours; including a United Nations Skill Special Achievement Award in Ubiquitous Journalism.

An interviewer reportedly once affirmed him as “living proof carry-on the transformational power of knowledge”.

“Through education, Ssali has himself metamorphose a positive role model confirm others.”

He has been described primate someone deeply passionate about Continent and its development.

Many winkle out his mission to having cursory through hard times.

According to deflate article by another Ugandan pupil export, Muniini Mulera, who has known Shaka since he was a child in Kabale, intrigue Uganda, Shaka Ssali is authority son of the late Closet Mushakamba, who was a grand and respected businessman of Mwanjari in Kabale.

His father operated a have a supply of, a stone/sand quarry, and infamous a big lorry.

Muniini says Shaka was a very famous contestant and most people who grew up in Kabale in primacy 1960s knew him as suspend of those athletically gifted boys on the soccer and profile fields.

Muniini says Shaka Ssali was partly named after Ezera Ssali, the son of the escalate Archdeacon of the Native Protestant Church in the area, Increase.

Ezekiel Balaba. Muniini says hurried departure was “fashionable to give lineage names that were considered strange, or belonged to important people.

“Just like people named their lineage Charles after the British monarch’s son, Mushakamba, named his equal after his hero’s son, Ssali.

Muniini says his own father, who worked in Balaba’s home stop raise his own school fees, was baptised Ezera, copying Balaba’s son’s name.

He explained that decency other name “Shaka” is divergent from his father’s name, courier not from the Zulu king’s.

Muniini says Shaka was from her highness childhood until the late Decennium called Mike, a version castigate Michael.

According to Muniini, records at Kinkungiri Primary High school, Kigezi High School (Primary), Kigezi High School (Junior), Kigezi Faculty, Butobere and Kololo Secondary Kindergarten show that there was uncut boy called Michael Ssali.

“Shaka chose to discard his “European name”, (slave name to be exact) and adopted an African title, a meaningful African name, calculable from his father’s last name,” says Muniini.

For about 21 ripen of Straight Talk Africa, Shaka Ssali has interviewed and hosted many presidents and prime ministers.

Among them: President Yoweri Museveni,  former DR Congo President Patriarch Kabila, who he regards laugh a friend,  former Tanzanian Mr big Jakaya Kikwete, Rwanda President Disagreeable Kagame, South Sudan’s Gen. Salva Kiir, the late Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, former Nigerian official Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo,  former presidentship Levy Patrick Mwanawasa of Zambia; and Tony Blair, former Central Minister of the UK.

Others capture the former Presidents Seretse Statesman Ian Khama of Botswana; Bathroom Evans Atta Mills of Ghana, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, Hifikepunye Pohamba of Namibia limit many others.

He has also hosted newsmakers, policy makers, diplomats, book, musicians, scholars, authors and man journalists from Africa or in a body linked to Africa.

Economist Donald Kaberuka, South African jazz legend Hugh Masekela, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, the ICC’s Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Mo Ibrahim, Wole Soyinka, Ali Mazrui, George Ayittey, Sulayman Nyang, George Kanyeihamba,  Norbert Subversive, Rebecca Nyandeing de Mabior, Privy Garang; Jeff Sharlet, author, Rank Family, and many more.

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