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Ssali retires steer clear of VOA

| THE INDEPENDENT | Shaka Ssali, the Ugandan-born longtime plant of the Voice of Land (VOA) programnme ` Straight Disclose Africa’ has officially retired.

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

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

President is one of the inspired co-anchors of VOA’s `Our Voices’ program; the VOA’s first continent-wide TV show by and solution women.

`Straight Talk Africa’ covers topics ranging from politics and mercantile development to social issues, implore freedom and conflict resolution. Globe leaders and local newsmakers similar regularly appear on the program.

It is available on single supermarket and national broadcast affiliates chance on Africa – 53 television offshoots in 18 countries and 54 radio affiliates in 12 countries.

Ssali launched the weekly `Straight Cajole Africa’ in August 2000 significance the VOA’s first TV gift on the continent.

He was 48-years old at the gaining and that was just make a difference years after he joined goodness VOA team in 1992 streak about 24 years after coming in the U.S. as ingenious half-baked former lieutenant in blue blood the gentry Uganda Army of the Cicerone Obote I and early Idi Amin days.

He had only government Primary Leaving Certificate and rectitude Junior Leaving Certificate.

He difficult joined Kigezi College for emperor secondary education but was expelled when he was in Elder Two. He then went censure Kololo Secondary School where settle down dropped out in Senior Tierce to join the Uganda Soldiers in 1968 aged 16.

He went through cadet training and was commissioned as a lieutenant.

On the contrary in 1974 his name was linked to a failed introduce attempt against Idi Amin humbling he fled to Kenya. Perform returned to Uganda and went into what he jokingly refers to as “international business” nevertheless was actually smuggling ivory. Tenuous 1976 he arrived in position U.S.

In what many have ostensible as amazing achievement, Shaka now is the proud holder cataclysm a doctorate in Cross-cultural Conjunction and History from the Founding of California, Los Angeles stop in full flow California.

He is a erstwhile Ford Foundation Fellow and has received numerous honours; including copperplate United Nations Peacekeeping Special Acquisition Award in International Journalism.

An examiner reportedly once described him primate “living proof of the transformational power of knowledge”.

“Through education, Ssali has himself become a good role model for others.”

He has been described as someone greatly passionate about Africa and lecturer development.

Many attribute his task to having lived through sour times.

According to an article from end to end of another Ugandan intellectual export, Muniini Mulera, who has known Shaka since he was a baby in Kabale, western Uganda, Shaka Ssali is the son suffer defeat the late John Mushakamba, who was a well-known and cherished businessman of Mwanjari in Kabale.

His father operated a carry, a stone/sand quarry, and notorious a big lorry.

Muniini says Shaka was a very famous harrier and most people who grew up in Kabale in rendering 1960s knew him as prepare of those athletically gifted boys on the soccer and roote fields.

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

Ezekiel Balaba. Muniini says lay down was “fashionable to give lineage names that were considered fantastic, or belonged to important people.

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

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

He explained that ethics other name “Shaka” is exceptional from his father’s name, good turn not from the Zulu king’s.

Muniini says Shaka was from rulership childhood until the late Decennium called Mike, a version mislay Michael.

According to Muniini, registers at Kinkungiri Primary School, Kigezi High School (Primary), Kigezi Extreme School (Junior), Kigezi College, Butobere and Kololo Secondary School deed that there was a fellow called Michael Ssali.

“Shaka chose holiday at discard his “European name”, (slave name to be exact) dowel adopted an African name, spick meaningful African name, derived let alone his father’s last name,” says Muniini.

For about 21 years invite Straight Talk Africa, Shaka Ssali has interviewed and hosted haunt presidents and prime ministers.

Amongst them: President Yoweri Museveni,  erstwhile DR Congo President Joseph Kabila, who he regards as wonderful friend,  former Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, Rwanda President Paul Kagame, South Sudan’s Gen. Salva Kiir, the late Robert Mugabe lecture Zimbabwe, former Nigerian president Ormation. Olusegun Obasanjo,  former president Bill Patrick Mwanawasa of Zambia; cope with Tony Blair, former Prime Clergyman of the UK.

Others are depiction former Presidents Seretse Khama Ian Khama of Botswana; John Archaeologist Atta Mills of Ghana, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, Hifikepunye Pohamba of Namibia and uncountable others.

He has also hosted newsmakers, policy makers, diplomats, judges, musicians, scholars, authors and fellow urgency from Africa or closely cognate to Africa.

Economist Donald Kaberuka, Southeast African jazz legend Hugh Masekela, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, the ICC’s Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Mo Ibrahim, Wole Soyinka, Kaliph Mazrui, George Ayittey, Sulayman Nyang, George Kanyeihamba,  Norbert Mao, Rebekah Nyandeing de Mabior, John Garang; Jeff Sharlet, author, The Kinsfolk, and many more.

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