Hamu Mukasa Library fund

A Library is to a University, what oxygen is to life.  Without a fresh breath of oxygen, death sets in within a matter of seconds.

As Howard Howe (former US Commissioner of Education) so aptly proclaimed:

   "What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks of education."

A Library contains the professional nutrients that nurture and enrich the intellectual prowess of a University.  It is the treasure trove, the wonderland which excites, stimulates and arouses the young scholarly mind into intellectual curiosity and creativity; and which edifies the research effort of the University’s scholarship. 

Fittingly, the UCU Library has been named after a scion of the patriarchs of the Mukono Community:  Hamu Mukasa who had the generosity of heart and the acuity of vision to selflessly donate one full square mile of virgin land to what is now the University.

I urge all people of goodwill to arise to the occasion, to walk that extra mile along the worthy path so perceptively paved by Hamu Mukasa. Together, let us all bring to fruition, in this new Century, what Hamu Mukasa and like-minded sowers planted in the last Century. This is your singular chance to sow a seed in the fertile soil of this budding University; to lend a wing to the young minds: to let their intellect soar like the eagle into the skies of their imagination.  

Remember:  “A great University deserves a great Library”!

Hon. Justice James Ogoola
Principal Judge of Uganda