Presently an Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Rwanda in Rwanda and an Honorary Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa, Nelson Mutatina Ijumba is an alumnus—a past graduate—of the University of Dar es Salaam of the graduating class of 1977. Within the University of Rwanda, he is based in the African Centre of Excellence in Energy for Sustainable Development (ACEESD), where he is an appointed International Research and Innovation Programme Manager of the ‘Africa Hub’ jointly owned by the University of Rwanda and Coventry University in the United Kingdom.

Previously an academic on the teaching and research staff of the University of Dar es Salaam, and currently a senior executive official within the Tanzanian Government, Dr. Natu Mwamba (neé El-Maamry) is an alumna of the University of Dar es Salaam - of the graduating class of 1984. Born in October 1961, of a parent who was himself a graduate lawyer and senior official in government and in civic organisations (the late Alhaji Said Hamad El-Maamry), Natu was taken by parents early to school in the mid-1960s