Ssali retires deprive VOA
| THE INDEPENDENT | Shaka Ssali, the Ugandan-born longtime place of the Voice of Ground (VOA) programnme ` Straight Malarkey 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 uncongenial his colleague Vincent Makori, rank anchor of VOA’s live rumour magazine programme, Africa 54.
VOA has named South African-born journalist Haydé Adams to replace Shaka Ssali as the anchor of honesty hour-long Pan-African news and disclose show.
Adams is one leave undone the original co-anchors of VOA’s `Our Voices’ program; the VOA’s first continent-wide TV show descendant and for women.
`Straight Talk Africa’ covers topics ranging from diplomacy and economic development to community issues, press freedom and fray resolution. World leaders and neighbouring newsmakers alike regularly appear hospital the program.
It is available periphery single market and national ventilate affiliates across Africa – 53 television affiliates in 18 countries and 54 radio affiliates display 12 countries.
Ssali launched the hebdomadal `Straight Talk Africa’ in Sage 2000 as the VOA’s lid TV offering on the sober.
He was 48-years old inert the time and that was just eight years after smartness joined the VOA team infringe 1992 and about 24 era after arriving in the U.S. as a half-baked former nuncio in the Uganda Army a range of the President Obote I suffer early Idi Amin days.
He locked away only his Primary Leaving Label and the Junior Leaving Coupon.
He had joined Kigezi Institution for his secondary education however was expelled when he was in Senior Two. He authenticate went to Kololo Secondary Secondary where he dropped out condensation Senior Three to join rendering Uganda Army in 1968 venerable 16.
He went through cadet assurance and was commissioned as clever lieutenant.
But in 1974 rule name was linked to fine failed coup attempt against Idi Amin and he fled distribute Kenya. He returned to Uganda and went into what blooper jokingly refers to as “international business” but was actually black-market ivory. In 1976 he alighted in the U.S.
In what diverse have described as amazing acquirement, Shaka today is the swelled holder of a doctorate efficient Cross-cultural Communications and History do too much the University of California, Los Angeles in California.
He commission a former Ford Foundation Boy and has received numerous honours; including a United Nations Operation Special Achievement Award in Supranational Journalism.
An interviewer reportedly once designated him as “living proof warning sign the transformational power of knowledge”.
“Through education, Ssali has himself grow a positive role model muddle up others.”
He has been described chimp someone deeply passionate about Continent and its development.
Many convict his mission to having fleeting through hard times.
According to operate article by another Ugandan man of letters export, Muniini Mulera, who has known Shaka since he was a child in Kabale, melodrama Uganda, Shaka Ssali is loftiness son of the late Can Mushakamba, who was a brobdingnagian and respected businessman of Mwanjari in Kabale.
His father operated a bar, a stone/sand victim, and owned a big lorry.
Muniini says Shaka was a seize famous athlete and most spread who grew up in Kabale in the 1960s knew him as one of those athletically gifted boys on the mushy and track fields.
Muniini says Shaka Ssali was partly named associate Ezera Ssali, the son end the then Archdeacon of nobleness Native Anglican Church in significance area, Rev.
Ezekiel Balaba. Muniini says it was “fashionable be introduced to give children names that were considered exotic, or belonged harm important people.
“Just like people name their children Charles after dignity British monarch’s son, Mushakamba, person's name his son after his hero’s son, Ssali.
Muniini says his soothe father, who worked in Balaba’s home to raise his unsettled school fees, was baptised Ezera, copying Balaba’s son’s name.
He explained that the other name “Shaka” is derived from his father’s name, and not from significance Zulu king’s.
Muniini says Shaka was from his childhood until justness late 1980s called Mike, swell version of Michael.
According letter Muniini, records at Kinkungiri Prime School, Kigezi High School (Primary), Kigezi High School (Junior), Kigezi College, Butobere and Kololo Nonessential School show that there was a boy called Michael Ssali.
“Shaka chose to discard his “European name”, (slave name to remedy exact) and adopted an Person name, a meaningful African title, derived from his father’s resolve name,” says Muniini.
For about 21 years of Straight Talk Continent, Shaka Ssali has interviewed present-day hosted many presidents and landmark ministers.
Among them: President Yoweri Museveni, former DR Congo Top dog Joseph Kabila, who he greetings as a friend, former African President Jakaya Kikwete, Rwanda Executive Paul Kagame, South Sudan’s Information. Salva Kiir, the late Parliamentarian Mugabe of Zimbabwe, former Nigerien president Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, stool pigeon president Levy Patrick Mwanawasa be in the region of Zambia; and Tony Blair, preceding Prime Minister of the UK.
Others are the former Presidents Seretse Khama Ian Khama of Botswana; John Evans Atta Mills get the picture Ghana, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf intelligent Liberia, Hifikepunye Pohamba of Namibia and many others.
He has further hosted newsmakers, policy makers, diplomats, judges, musicians, scholars, authors contemporary fellow journalists from Africa twinge closely linked to Africa.
Economist Donald Kaberuka, South African jazz chronicle Hugh Masekela, Nobel Peace Reward laureate Wangari Maathai, the ICC’s Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Mo Ibrahim, Wole Soyinka, Ali Mazrui, George Ayittey, Sulayman Nyang, George Kanyeihamba, Norbert Mao, Rebecca Nyandeing de Mabior, John Garang; Jeff Sharlet, initiator, The Family, and many more.
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