Xavier Ogena

Xavier Ogena was born
in Uganda in 1968. He was educated in Uganda at St Joseph’s College
Layibi, City High School (Kampala), and Kololo Senior Secondary School.
He was also educated in the United Kingdom at Emile Woolf College of
Accountancy, Accountancy Tutors Limited, and the University of London,
where he obtained a BA in Politics, Philosophy and History, and an MA in
Philosophy. He had been successively employed for about 20 years as a
management accountant by various not-for-profit organisations in the UK,
and was also an executive member of the UK and Ireland chapter of
“Museveni’s” National Resistance Movement (NRM), when he returned
permanently to Uganda in 2010. He made, under the banner of the NRM, an
unsuccessful bid for the Oyam County North parliamentary seat in the
Uganda general elections of 2011, whereupon he became a member of the
NRM National Executive Council (NEC) for the next five years, before
reverting to rank-and-file membership of the party, which he has
maintained to date. This is his first published work. The second volume
of his political biography of Museveni is forthcoming. He lives in Oyam,
where he divides his time among farming, reading, and writing.