Career
Mama Angelina is one of Uganda"s most celebrated community activists, leader, and a social worker As the Program Coordinator of the Market Vendors Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Project (MAVAP), Mama Angelina has successfully transformed Kampala"s markets into a one stop shopping where vendors and customers do trade but are also encouraged to check their Human Immunodeficiency Virus status and get treatment as well. She currently serves as Uganda"s High Commissioner to Kenya.
Mama Angelina and United Way President and Chief Executive Officer Brian Gallagher represented the United Way at the White House Summit on Malaria in Washington, District of Columbia on 14 December 2006.
The Summit was hosted by the President and Mistress Bush.
She was born and raised in the Iringa District of Tanzania.
While a student at the University of Dar es Salaam, she met James Wapakhabulo (23 March 1945 - 27 March 2004), the late former Minister of Foreign Affairs, from 2001 until 2004. During Wapakhabulo"s memorial service at their home in Mafudu village, Sironko District, President Museveni said they were relieved when Wapakhabulo told them he was going to marry Angelina.
Wapakhabulo had earlier shown interest in marrying an American, a proposal his peers considered a betrayal given their student Pan-African revolutionary pretensions at the time.
