John Akii-Bua
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John Akii-Bua was a Ugandan hurdler and the first Olympic champion from his country Uganda. In 1986, he was a recipient of the Silver Olympic Order.
John Akii-Bua c. 1972
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Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo
John Akii-Bua
…John Akii-Bua (3 December 1949 – 20 June 1997) was a Ugandan hurdler and the first Olympic champion from his country Uganda. In 1986, he was a recipient of the Silver Olympic Order. Akii-Bua was raised in a family…
A caesarean section performed by indigenous healers in Kahura, in the kingdom of Bunyoro, present-day Uganda, as observed by medical missionary Robert William Felkin in 1879
Construction of the Owen Falls Dam in Jinja
Kabaka Muwenda Mutebi II and his wife Sylvia Nagginda
The Uganda printers building on Kampala Road, Kampala, Uganda