Date of birth: 20.12.1948
Website: www.magoba.ug

Novelist, playwrite, poet, folklorist and broadcaster in his mother tongue Luganda since 1977.
Currently editor of an influential Luganda magazine "Entanda ya Buganda." which concetrates on culture and development.
He has initiated the only Luganda children's magazine" Entanda y'abato" in the bid to cultivate a reading culture in the Luganda speaking children. Soon he will be lanching a magazine in Luganda dedicated to youths equipping them with life skills in order to reduce enemplyment which which one of the major causes of AIDS in Uganda because youths have plenty of idle time. They are forced to engage into unprotected sex for two reasons.1 they dont have the money to buy condoms because they have no jobs,2.they have plenty of idlde time and the easiest way to while it away is to engage in sex.
All the three magazines are funded by his current employers:Central Broadcasting Service.

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