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Barbara Ntambirweki Karugonjo is a lawyer, academic, and activist in Uganda. She is a lecturer in the faculty of law at Uganda Pentecostal University, a private university.
Background and education
Ntambirweki has a Bachelor of Laws degree from Makerere University, Uganda's oldest and largest public university. She also has a Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Center. Her Master of Laws degree was obtained from the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
Career
She is a lecturer in the faculty of law at the Kampala campus of Uganda Pentecostal University. She also serves as an advocate in the law firm of Ntambirweki Kandeebe & Company Advocates, specializing in commercial transactions, litigation, and administrative law. She concurrently works as a research officer the Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment organization, where she "provides both research and administrative support to the various projects under the Programme".
In her personal writings, Ntabirweki recognizes the dominance of agriculture in the national economy. She argues that to maximize agricultural output, the application of science and technology is critically important. She has criticized the small funding by the Ugandan government of agricultural research.