Tumusiime Rushedge (1 March 1941 – 2008) was a

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n surgeon, pilot, novelist, cartoonist and newspaper columnist. He was known as "Tom Rush". He wrote a weekly column in the ''Sunday Vision'', called "Old Fox". He was the brain behind the cartoon strip "Ekanya", which was published daily in the ''New Vision''. The cartoons centred on the drunken character Ekanya and his struggling wife Rosie, and has remained popular since the early 1970s. He is the author of a novel, ''The Corrupt, the Quick and the Dead''.

Early life and education

Tumusiime was born on 1 March 1941 in Buhweju county,

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. He was the first-born of seven children, born to the Rev. Andereya Rushedge and Eseza Bantu. He grew up in a Christian home and during his childhood, he was greatly involved in Emmanuel Church Kabwohe as a drummer calling worshippers to Sunday service. He attended Kibubura Boys Primary School in Ibanda, for his primary education. For secondary education, he went on to

Mbarara High School Mbarara High School (MHS), is a boys-only boarding middle and high school located in the city of Mbarara, in Mbarara District in Western Uganda. Location The school is located in the Western Ugandan city of Mbarara, approximately , by road, sou ...

(1954–1957) and

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(1958–1960). He designed the school badge of Ntare school while a student there. He studied Medicine at

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in 1961. There, again he excelled and in 1966 he graduated with honours, going on to specialise in ear, nose and throat (ENT). He attained a postgraduate diploma at Medical School. He went for further studies in the US and attained a master's degree in Surgery in Chicago. For his accomplishment in the medical fields of ENT and neurology, he was awarded a professorship.

Published works

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