While still serving with Radio Uganda, Nakabuubi was awarded a scholarship and proceeded to Germany to get more training in radio production.
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One of the pioneer female radio presenters in the country, Raphaelina Nakabuubi, 86, has finally signed out after a lengthy period of illness. Nakabuubi died Monday morning.
She is famed for having played a leading role in building morals among the girl child through her programmes first on Radio Uganda and later on the Central Broadcasting Services (CBS) FM.
Buganda Kingdom spokesperson, Israel Kitooke Kazibwe said the kingdom has lost a key figure in the role of instilling discipline among Buganda youth. One of the bereaved children Jane Nakkazi said her late mother was born to the late Paul Kabuubi and Elizabeth Nalukwago in 1939 at Nkoni, Masaka district.
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She went to school at St. Clare Primary School, Nkoni and Nkokonjeru TTC where she underwent a teaching course. She later joined Radio Uganda where she started producing various programmes.
The specific radio programs that raised her popularity include ‘Sanyuka nga bw’oyiga’, ‘Ebirowoozo by’abawuliriza’, ‘Emboozi y’amaka’ and many others. For over 40 years, she was a choir member of St. Agnes Church Makindye, and a woman leader in the Catholic Church in Luwafu-Makindye zone.
While still serving with Radio Uganda, Nakabuubi was awarded a scholarship and proceeded to Germany to get more training in radio production. A close friend of the deceased Rosette Nansubuga said Nakabuubi was close to the late Kabaka Edward Muteesa II.
Nakabuubi is to be laid to rest today, Tuesday August 19, at her ancestral grounds at Nkoni in Masaka.
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