George Wilson Kanyeihamba was a Ugandan jurist, author and politician who lived from 1939 to 2025. He earned a law degree from Portsmouth University and a doctorate in law from the University of Warwick, and served as Uganda's Minister of Commerce, Justice and Attorney-General under President Yoweri Museveni before chairing the legal committee that drafted Uganda's 1995 constitution. Kanyeihamba served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Uganda from 1997 to 2009 and also sat as a judge of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights; he was one of three Supreme Court justices who found that Museveni's 2006 re-election had been fraudulent enough to warrant nullification, a dissent that reportedly cost him his position on the African Court. He wrote extensively on Ugandan constitutional history and governance.
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He was also a chair of the Legal Committee of the Constituent Assembly that made the 1995 Constitution.
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George Wilson Kanyeihamba was a Ugandan jurist, author and politician who lived from 1939 to 2025.
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George Wilson Kanyeihamba was a Ugandan author, politician, and judge who was a cabinet minister and member of parliament.
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Wikidata Q5541235, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1939
Wikidata Q5541235, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1939-08-11
Wikidata Q5541235, P570 date of death claim (year)
P570 (date of death): 2025
Wikidata Q5541235, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 2025-07-14
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