nteireho

Nick Ngazoire Nteireho was born in a family of seven brothers and two sisters, to Tobi and Solome Ngazoire in Kabura village, Rukungiri, Western Uganda. His formative years were spent at Nyakibale Missionary School, from where he proceeded to Kigezi College, Butobere, a government boarding secondary school in Kabale. He entered Makerere University, Kampala during Uganda’s tumultuous period under dictator Idi Amin, and witnessed, as the country, once known as the ＂Pearl of Africa,＂ degenerated to parallel Pol Pot’s killing fields in Cambodia. Escaping the mayhem on a UNESCO scholarship, to the US, he attended graduate school at George Washington University, after which, he worked at the World Bank. A US citizen now, he currently works for Fairfax County, Virginia, where he lives with his wife Christine. They have two grownup children.