Amama Mbabazi, is a Ugandan politician who served as the ninth Prime Minister of Uganda from 24 May 2011 to 19 September 2014. He played an instrumental role in Uganda's protracted liberation struggle from several tyrannical governments (1972-1986) and is a founding member of the National Resistance Movement, the ruling political party in Uganda.
Mbabazi served as the member of parliament for the Kinkiizi West constituency in Kanungu District, a position held from 1996 until 2016, when he ran unsuccessfully for the Presidency.

He was born in Mparo Village, Rukiga County, in present-day Kabale District

Education
He went to Kigezi College Butobere for his high school education
Ntare School for his A-Levels.
Mbabazi earned a Bachelor of Laws from Makerere University
He received a postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Center in Kampala
He is an Advocate of the Courts of Judicature of Uganda and has been a member of the Uganda Law Society since 1977

Career
Before joining politics, he worked as a state attorney in the Attorney General's Chambers from 1976 to 1978, rising to the position of secretary of the Uganda Law Council from 1977 to 1979.
Between 1986 and 1992, he served as head of the External Security Organization.
He has also served as Minister of State in the President's Office, in charge of political affairs
He became secretary of the NRM caucus in the Constituent Assembly that drafted the 1995 Uganda Constitution
Between 1986 and 1992, he was Minister of State for Defense. Subsequently, he served as Minister of State for Regional Cooperation from 1998 to 2001. He was Attorney General and Minister of Justice from 2004 to 2006, a feat that earned him the moniker "Super Minister". He was appointed as Minister of Defense in 2006, a position he held until he was appointed as Minister of Security. He served as Minister of Security from February 2009 until May 2011, when he was appointed Prime Minister.
He was Secretary General of the NRM from November 2005 to January 2015.

Presidential bid
Mbabazi's childhood friend Ruhakana Rugunda was appointed to replace him as Prime Minister on 18 September 2014, by President Yoweri Museveni. This move was seen by many as Museveni's way of punishing Mbabazi for his rumoured presidential run. On 15 June 2015, Mbabazi declared his intentions to run against Yoweri Museveni for the National Resistance Movement's nomination for president at the party’s convention on 4 October 2015. This declaration was followed by a response from President Museveni who dubbed it "bad conduct and premature". On 31 July, after much disagreement between top-ranking party officials and Mbabazi himself, the former Prime Minister declared he would stand as an independent candidate. His candidature is backed by The Democratic Alliance (TDA), a loose convergence of minor political parties working to win the position of presidency.
In the 2016 general election he received 1.39% of the vote, placing third.
Mbabazi has represented Uganda in international fora, including the United Nations Security Council, where he argued for the international community to allow the Uganda People's Defense Force to pursue the Lord's Resistance Army fighters into the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

References

1. Musoke, Cyprian (24 May 2011). "Amama Mbabazi's road to Prime Minister". New Vision. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
2. Daily Monitor, Editors (2011). "Members of the 9th Ugandan Parliament (2011 – 2016)" (PDF). Daily Monitor. Retrieved 28 July 2014.