Several students were chosen from the same art department at Makerere where Mr Kingdon was first inspired.

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Well done BBC for this inspiring piece and I am sure that the BBC science festival from Makerere University will be a success!

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As an eight-year-old boy, he was given permission to help pour a first casting in the art department of Makerere University in Kampala.

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Back on shore, Gabriel Kasozi, now of the Makerere University of Kampala in Uganda, studied the sediments in coastal areas of Louisiana after the disaster.

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Three students of Makerere University of Uganda have invented a pregnancy scan machine that has already won an award, Ventures Africa has reported.

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Uganda's Daily Monitor told its readers that the prestigious Makerere University - the country's oldest - will be sold to developers planning to build a satellite city on the site, forcing its 30, 000 students to find places at other universities.

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