Donald Kaberuka, the immediately past president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) based in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, is an alumnus of the University of Dar es Salaam. Donald Kaberuka was born on 5 October 1951 in Byumba in Rwanda’s northern district of Gicumbi, some 60 kilometres south of the country’s capital city of Kigali, where he attended his early primary and secondary schools in the early 1970s. He then proceeded with university education, enrolling at the University of Dar es Salaam in 1973/4 for a three-year bachelor’s degree programme in Economics and Development Studies.

The University of Dar es Salaam’s ‘Alumna of the Month’ for June 2020 is Anna Tibaijuka (née Kajumulo). Anna was born to a couple of rural farmers in the village of Kagabiro in what is today Muleba district [in Bukoba], on the 12th of October, 1950. She was born a fifth of eleven children to the now-late hard-working and religious parents Mr. Alexander and Mrs. Aulelia Kajumulo. At the age of eight, she was sent to primary school at Kaigara (1958 -1961) and then to Kashozi girls middle school (1962 -1965), from where she qualified for secondary education at Rugambwa Girls (1966-1969) and Marian College now Kilakala Girls Secondary School in Morogoro (1970-1971).