About Bernadette Olowo
Born 1940. Bernadette Olowo is an activist.
Bernadette Olowo, later Olowo-Freers (born c. 1948) is a Ugandan former diplomat.
Olowo is an alumna of Trinity College Nabbingo and served for a time as Uganda's ambassador to Germany. She was named ambassador of Uganda to the Vatican City in 1975, becoming the first woman in over 900 years to be accepted as a diplomat by the Vatican. In the 1990s she began working with UNICEF and UNAIDS on projects to combat AIDS in southern and eastern Africa.
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Who is Bernadette Olowo?
Ugandan diplomat
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Bernadette Olowo was born in 1940.
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Bernadette Olowo is an activist.
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