Anne Mugisha is a former member of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) and a bright intelligent Ugandan lady with enough good records to her name.
Though many people have known Anne Mugisha for her activism and attachment to FDC, Anne is a proven intellectual who once topped Uganda’s O level or A level exams.
Ms Anne Mugisha as someone who has had number of opportunities to be part of Uganda’s political scene and she would speak and everyone listens, she knew what she was doing and what she wanted to achieve in life.
When we visited her facebook page we saw a testimony of a female political activist she was and she is. Social networks have made research so easy that a facebook page can tell you what kind of person someone is and indeed Anne’s page is painted politics.
Anne Mugisha was one of the first people in Uganda to embrace Col. Kiiza Besigye in 2000 and she did good publicity for him during that time.
After the 2001 general elections which Besigye lost to NRM’s General Kaguta Museveni, Anne Mugisha jetted off to the USA where she kept silent for some time though actively involved in Uganda politics as the Executive Director of RESPOND Uganda- a Diaspora Organization based in Washington DC that sought to create awareness about political persecution and regressing democratic development in Uganda.
It was during this time when she was awarded the Reagan Fascell Democracy Fellowship at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington DC.
In 2006, Anne Mugisha was named a special envoy in Dr. Besigye ‘s office based in the diaspora. After speeding nine years in self imposed political exile, Anne Mugisha returned to Uganda (in 2010) and thought of contesting for MP in Nakawa division but later switched to Mbarara district to contest as woman MP.
She lost the bid to NRM. She later actively participated in ‘walk to work’ protests in Kampala and some areas of Buganda. Dr. Col. Kiiza Besigye, the president general of FDC says that Uganda’s opposition in general has missed an iron lady at the time when she was most needed.
Walakira Nyanzi