There is a lot Buganda Kingdom can learn from the successes registered by the Aga Khan Foundation in the fight against poverty within the Ismaili and other communities. This is the key proposition made to the attendees of the Third Buganda Conference convened at Hotel Africana in Kampala on Dec. 17. […]
Kingdom Attorney General Apollo Makubuya, who chaired the conference organizing committee, told The Independent in the run-up to the event that the conference would front the view that fighting “pervasive poverty” in Uganda requires the active involvement of cultural institutions, whose “record regarding mobilisation is not in doubt”.
He isn’t wrong, at least in the case of the Ismaili community. The Aga Khan, the religious and cultural leader of the Ismaili community, founded the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), currently one of the largest private development networks in the world. Prince Karim Aga Khan IV is the forty-ninth Ismaili Imam, claiming lineage to Ali, cousin of Prophet Muhammad.
His network not only works with the Ismaili community, who originate from Persia, but also with several African and Asian countries to improve living conditions and promote education.
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