Robert Fungo is a very ambitious Ugandan. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in Food Science and Technology at Makerere University, while at the same time working at Biovarsity International, an agricultural research centre in Cotonou, Republic of Benin.
Biovarsity deals in the promotion and conservation of indigenous African foods. Fungo has worked here for the last three years but keeps coming to Kampala to work on his doctorate programme at Makerere, where he did his first degree and later masters in Food Science and Technology. Fungo has travelled extensively in West Africa working for Biovarsity and in so doing, experienced different and contrasting cultures and foods, to those in Uganda.
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