Current and former staff and contributers of the Leadership Magazine at an interaction outing in 2006. Jean-Marie Nsambu (Editor) stands fartherest left, while the Chairman of the Magazine Management Committee Fr. Ruffino Ezama is third from left, Micheal Nyondo (the Graphics Designer) is seated middle, while the Accountant Jackie Adania is third from right, Beatrice Wanjira (the Secretary) stands extreme right and Rackara Ayago (the Photographer) is with cap on the head.

 

Leadership is a Catholic magazine published in Uganda by the Comboni Missionaries.    It was founded in October 1956 by Fr. Tarcisio Agostoni, as a publication of Gulu diocese for Christian leaders of the Catholic Action and other Church movements.

At that time, Fr. Agostoni saw that Uganda was soon getting independence and that the church lagged behind in having Catholics with enough preparation to occupy positions of leaderhip in society, hence the title of the magazine.

As it was the case in many other African countries, Uganda’s first newspaper was founded by the first missionaries (Munno, started in 1911). Also the first printing presses were Church-founded. Following in this tradition, Leadership has been published monthly for the last fifty years., even during very difficult times, like in the 1970s under Idi Amin, when there was no freedom of the press and there was scarcity of paper for printing.

Our issues feature current topical issues about Africa –Uganda in particular- and Church news, plus pages on Education, Health, Culture, Personalities and Opinion.

Although it is distributed mainly in Uganda, we also have subscribers in some other countries.