Sugra Visram

Sugra Visram (15 July 1923 – 29 October 2012), also known as Sugra Namubiru Visram, was a Ugandan politician, activist and businesswoman. She was one of the first female members of parliament co-opted into the Buganda Lukiiko by Kabaka Muteesa II. Affiliated to the Kabaka Yekka Party, she represented Kibuga Constituency (present day Mengo) in Uganda's First and Second Parliaments till she resigned as a member of parliament in 1966. Together with Florence Alice Lubega and Eseza Makumbi, she was one of the first three women to serve in this position in post-independence Uganda.

In 2012, she was awarded the National Independence Medal.

Background and education She was born Sugra Jamal in Nsambya Hospital to Mohamedali Jamal, of Pakistani origin and Kawkab Aha Mirza of Iranian descent. She grew up in Mengo and Old Kampala and she studied at Old Kampala Senior Secondary School.

Visram joined politics in 1962 and in that year's pre-independence Buganda elections, Visram along with Florence Alice Lubega and Eseza Makumbi, were elected to the Lukiiko. After the 1962 Ugandan general elections, she was nominated to the Independence National Assembly of 1962 to 1966 to serve as a representative from Buganda still with Florence Alice Lubega thus making them the first female members of this body.

She was head of the Women's Wing of Kabaka Yekka (KY) in addition to being the Vice Chair of the Uganda Council for Women which she joined in 1944. He died in 1998 and they had three children.

Visram left Uganda in 1972 after President Idi Amin's expulsion of Asians from Uganda.