PROFILE: Who Exactly Was DJ Alex Ndawula?

Veteran radio presenter and DJ Alex Ndawula is dead. Ndawula is said to have been pronounced dead at Nsambya Hospital on June 06.

Here is the Quick Profile of the Man Who Graced Ugandan Radio Airwaves for Over Two Decades:

• Date of Birth: January 08, 1963
• Parents: Mary Frances Ndawula and the Late Emmanuel Ndawula
• Wife: Drucila (divorced in 2014)

Schools Attended:

1. Nakasero Primary School
2. St Mary’s Nairobi
3. St Mary’s College Kisubi
4. Namasagali College
5. Caltec Academy
6. Declined to join Makerere University because he didn’t like the academic program he was admitted on.

• Nakawa Institute (later Mubs)
• Worked at a photo studio doing photography and engraving in Nakawa
• Worked as a freelance designer
• Joined Ssanyu FM in 1993 as private radio stations began operations in Uganda, thanks to the liberalization of the economy and the media
• 1994: Joined Capital FM, working on the morning show with Irene Ochwo, and later Christine Mawadri
• Later shifted to the Evening Drive Show, and also did the Saturday Dance Force