Lady Judge Tujilane Rose Chizumila of Malawi is an alumna of the University of Dar es Salaam, of the graduating class of 1977.  To begin with, one cannot fully appreciate her link with this University without an awareness of a background story concerning her beloved father, ‘Mzee’ George P. [Gomo] Michongwe.  She was herself born on 14^th May 1953 in Zomba, Malawi, obtaining her primary education at Chileka and CI Primary School in Zomba. Her father, Mr Michongwe, was a senior civil servant in the Malawi government, who, upon the country’s independence in 1964, was appointed to the Malawi Delegation at the United Nations (UN) in New York as Consul General. He served there for two years until 1966.

Abdiel Abayo is our UDSM Alumnus of the Month April. He is the University’s graduate of the 1981 graduating class. He first enrolled into the University in 1978, undertaking a bachelor’s degree programme in commerce (B.Com) in the-then Faculty of Commerce and Management; and he took the Accounting option. He hails from Mara region in the northern part of Tanzania, where he also attended the early phases of his formal education before moving on to the advanced levels of secondary and higher education. He secured admission at the University of Dar es Salaam in 1978, into the-then Faculty of Commerce and Management, for a three-year degree study programme. He majored in (concentrated on) accounting