Dr. Michael Bazzebulala Nsimbi, MBE, (March 10, 1910 – March 5, 1994), considered the Father of Ganda literature, was a pioneer of Luganda language, culture and written forms. In the 1940s Nsimbi produced Ennono z’Abaganda (The Origins of Baganda), a foundational work in the development of Luganda orthography and historiography. He established the Luganda Society in 1950 to preserve, popularise and promote the use of Luganda among both Baganda and non-Baganda, and worked with J. D. Chesswas to produce text books for courses in Luganda language. Chairman of the society from 1963 - 1987, Nsimbi was a driving force, together with Dr. Livingstone Walusimbi, in establishing a Luganda language curriculum for the first time at Makeerere University in 1976, the country’s only university at the tim