IF she had followed her career path, perhaps Winnie Byanyima could have been somewhere, probably even at NASA headquarters guiding the launch of the next spaceship.
She was the first female aeronautics engineer in Uganda as well as the first African woman to win a Zonta International’s Amelia Earhart Fellowship. But coming from a family with very strong political background, Byanyima later abandoned her areonautics career to join the liberation struggle.
Though soft-spoken, Byanyima is a woman of strong character. From being elected a member of the Constituent Assembly in 1994, Byanyima went on to win the Mbarara municipality parliamentary seat twice, including against Ngoma Ngime, the then official NRM candidate in 2001. Although she quit local politics in 2004 to join the AU and now the UN, those familiar with her know that her time in Ugandan politics is not yet over.
For the full story, see New Vision.
IF she had followed her career path, perhaps Winnie Byanyima could have been somewhere, probably even at NASA headquarters guiding the launch of the next spaceship.
She was the first female aeronautics engineer in Uganda as well as the first African woman to win a Zonta International’s Amelia Earhart Fellowship. But coming from a family with very strong political background, Byanyima later abandoned her areonautics career to join the liberation struggle.
Though soft-spoken, Byanyima is a woman of strong character. From being elected a member of the Constituent Assembly in 1994, Byanyima went on to win the Mbarara municipality parliamentary seat twice, including against Ngoma Ngime, the then official NRM candidate in 2001. Although she quit local politics in 2004 to join the AU and now the UN, those familiar with her know that her time in Ugandan politics is not yet over.
For the full story, see New Vision.