{"id":2000105665,"date":"2026-03-17T12:12:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/?p=2000105665"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:13:11","slug":"miss-uganda-2023-hannah-tumukunde-campaigns-for-makerere-university-student-guild-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/miss-uganda-2023-hannah-tumukunde-campaigns-for-makerere-university-student-guild-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Uganda 2023, Hannah Tumukunde campaigns for Makerere University Student Guild President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tumukunde was born in Nakaseke and attended Seroma Christian High School and Hana International School before enrolling at Makerere University for her higher education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The young woman shared her excitement about running for the position of Student Guild President, expressing her enthusiasm to lead her fellow students at Makerere University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After winning the Miss Uganda title, Hannah Karema Tumukunde was often referred to as Rwandan. However, following some debates surrounding her heritage, she clarified that she is Ugandan, with one parent from Rwanda and the other from Ankole, Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview with MC Kats shortly after being crowned, she addressed the speculation that she had been awarded the Miss Uganda title despite not being Ugandan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tumukunde explained that she is, in fact, Ugandan, born in Uganda to a Rwandan mother and an Ankole father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Miss Hannah Karema Tumukunde is campaigning for the Student Guild President at Makerere University.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hannah Karema Tumukunde, who won the Miss Uganda 2023 crown, is currently campaigning for the position of Student Guild President at Makerere University, where she is studying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":2000105693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"byline":[201],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000105665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","byline-rania-umutoni"],"bylines":[{"id":201,"name":"Rania Umutoni","slug":"rania-umutoni","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":139}],"contributors":[{"id":201,"name":"Rania Umutoni","slug":"rania-umutoni","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":139}],"featured_image":{"id":2000105693,"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tm.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":1000,"height":723,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tm.jpg","width":150,"height":108},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tm.jpg","width":300,"height":217},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tm.jpg","width":768,"height":555},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tm.jpg","width":1000,"height":723},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tm.jpg","width":1000,"height":723}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000105665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000105665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000105665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000105695,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000105665\/revisions\/2000105695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000105693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000105665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000105665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000105665"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000105665"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000105665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}