Mulinde Musoke

Mulinde Musoke has been involved in journalism since August 1987, when he started freelancing for _The New Vision _newspaper, Uganda’s leading daily.

The editors were amazed by his latent talent and a year later, he was taken on as a reporter. He started on the news desk before it was then decided his writing skills were better suited for features.

His specialty was socio-economic issues, human interest stories. By the early 1990s, he was already a recipient of journalism awards in two categories. He then joined Weekly Topic as Features Editor, but after 12 months went back to The New Vision.

A front page story on IMF concerns about Uganda’s interest rates caught the eye of The New Vision Editor-in-Chief, who then pushed Mulinde towards business/ financial reporting. He eventually also became an occasional contributor for the African Business magazine based in London and featuredon Focus on Africa radio programme.

By 1997, the newspaper had set up an autonomous Business Desk, independent of the News Desk, with Mulinde in charge. He held the position for seven years. In the meantime, he also had an opportunity to get specialized training courtesy of the Associated Press, The Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Reuters and the Thomson Foundation (before Reuters and Thomson teamed up).  

In early 2004, Mulinde then joined the team that published East African Procurement News, a predominantly business weekly. He would later take over as the editor of when the newspaper was repackaged into a monthly magazine titled, Procurement News.

Mulinde left_ PN _in 2013 to eventually edit the _East African Business Week _for three years before deciding to join public relations at the beginning of 2017.

Mulinde is well versed with both British English and American English, having studied at a school that followed the US curriculum in Nairobi. Even now, he can still name by heart, most of the 50 states. At the turn of the century, he also had an opportunity to travel to the US. He has lived in the UK, been to France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Thailand and South Africa.

He has an open mind and to a reasonable extent, he is still willing to learn new skills. Age has not dulled his pursuit for new challenges nor do deadlines hold any fear for him. Mulinde has lived by deadlines for much of his adult life!