Background
He was born in Bukanga Village, Isingiro District on 6 February 1959 to Yunus Kaweesa and Zuhurah Kaweesa.
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Ahmad Ssengendo
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He attended Kyaluhambura Primary School for his elementary education. He attended Old Kampala Secondary School for his O-Level studies, from 1973 until 1976. Foreign his A-Level education, he relocated to Saint Henry"s College Kitovu, where he studied physics, chemistry, biology, and subsidiary mathematics.
He was admitted to, the largest and oldest public university in Uganda.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in botany degree.
He followed that with a Diploma in education. Later, he obtained a Master Arts in education, also from Makerere University.
From 1985 until 1987, Ssengendo attended the University of Kansas, obtaining a Doctor of Philosophy in education degree.
Career
He is the vice chancellor of the Islamic University in Uganda, a private university that was accredited by the Uganda National Council for Higher (UNCHE) in 1988. He was appointed to that position in 2004. While pursuing his Diploma in, he taught at Nyamitanga Primary School and at Nyamitanga Secondary School in Mbarara, Mbarara District.
Western Region.
After obtaining the diploma, he joined the Department of Botany at Makerere University as an assistant lecturer. To augment his income, he concurrently taught at Old Kampala Senior Secondary School, his alma mater, and at Bilal Islamic Institute. When he returned to Uganda after his Doctor of Philosophy studies in 1987, he re-joined Makerere, but this time, in the School of After barely one year, he left to join eight other educators, who teamed up to start the Islamic University in Uganda in 1988.
Starting out s a Lecturer at IUIU, Ssengendo rose through the ranks to become University Secretary.
In 2001, he was requested to start IUIU"s Kampala Campus. From 2003 to 2004 he served as Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academics.
In 2004, at the age of 45, he was appointed Vice Chancellor of IUIU. Ahmad Ssengendo is married to two wives.
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