Education and Early Career
Kayiira attended Namilyango College, and was admitted to the Faculty of Mathematics at Makerere University but instead he chose to work for the government Civil Service in the Prisons Department where he rose to Assistant Superintendent. He later won a scholarship to the United Kingdom where he obtained a Diploma in Criminal Justice. He then moved to the United States to attend the University of Southern Illinois, where he gained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice and an M.A. and a PhD in Criminal Justice from the State University of New York.
The regime of Idi Amin was in full swing at the time Kayiira completed his studies, so he remained in the USA, where he took up the position of Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven in Connecticut. It was at this time that he began active politics, founding the Uganda Freedom Union (UFU) with other Ugandans living in the United States - including Godfrey Binaisa.
After the overthrow of Idi Amin in 1979, Andrew Kayiira returned to Uganda as a member of the quasi-legislative National Consultative Council under President Yusuf Lule. Some of his siblings include Kayiira David professing the legal art in Uganda inter alia.
Read more about this topic: Andrew Kayiira
Famous quotes containing the words education, early and/or career:
“Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we’re selling this deadly stuff anyway?”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“Today’s pressures on middle-class children to grow up fast begin in early childhood. Chief among them is the pressure for early intellectual attainment, deriving from a changed perception of precocity. Several decades ago precocity was looked upon with great suspicion. The child prodigy, it was thought, turned out to be a neurotic adult; thus the phrase “early ripe, early rot!””
—David Elkind (20th century)
“Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman’s natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.”
—Ann Oakley (b. 1944)