The Teaching Legacy Of Dr. Ibrahim Matovu.
Profile
Ibarhim Matovu was born on February 15, in 1959 to Zaina Nakanyike and Sulaiman Matovu. Matovu hails from Mukono District. He started school at Bamusuuta Church of Uganda Primary School where he served as head prefect and sat Primary Leaving Examinations.
He then joined Kibuli Core Primary Teacher’s College for four years, as a student from where he joined Kibuli Demonstration School.
Matovu’s parents were not well-to-do, so when he joined college, Hajji Hussein Male, the principal became a father figure.
Retirement
Matovu is now in retirement. He volunteers as head of education department at House of Zakat and Waqf, in Old Kampala- Uganda. This is a non-denominational and not for profit organisation set up to manage and administer Zakat (obligatory dues) and preservation of Waqf (endowment) in accordance with the teaching of the Holy Koran, Hadith, consensus and analogy for the social wellbeing of Muslims and development of Islam.
He is an active member at the Equator University of Science and Technology (EQUSaT), Masaka. EQUSaT is a private-not-for- profit higher education institution which offers a wide range of academic programmes accredited by the National Council for Higher Education and other appropriate professional and regulatory bodies in Uganda and the region at large.
The institution was founded under an agreement between the government of Uganda through the Ministry of Health and the University of Lahore, Pakistan.