Ex Tanzania President Benjamin Mkapa will tomorrow be awarded with a honorary doctorate degree at Makerere University. He becomes the tenth person to get the honour from Uganda's most prestigious university.

Mr Mkapa will be the guest of honour and guest speaker at the university's alumni reunion. The decision to award Mr Mkapa the honorary degree was endorsed by the University's Senate.

The Senate is the highest decision-making body of academic-related matters at the institution.

Mr Mkapa enrolled at Makerere University in 1957 and graduated with a Bachelors of Arts degree in English in 1962. Other prominent Africans who have gone through the gates of Makerere include among others; Kenya President Mwai Kibaki, former Uganda Presidents Godfrey Binaisa, Milton Obote, Edward Mutesa, Yusuf Lule and former Nigeria head of State Hajj Shehu Shagar.