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Chester said the success in Uganda served as a case study for his friend, who is setting his sites on a bigger project: a nonprofit funding education, medicine and farming in rural Uganda. Kaba first had the idea to start a nonprofit when he bought a car in Uganda sight unseen to get around during his trip. The vehicle broke down in a village between Rhino camp and the capital, Kampala, where he'd bought it.

He learned Ugandans in his village dealt with such hurdles every day. Kaba signed up for the Lansing Economic Area Partnership's One and All entrepreneurship program to centralize his vision for the country with his organization, Uganda WISH water, innovation, sanitation and hunger. Through his nonprofit, Kaba wants to pump resources into areas like Rhino camp.

His first priority is a medical facility to treat ill villagers, many of whom die in the camp due to lack of health care. He says he'd employ a group of volunteers at the facility to treat and train villagers. And he did. It speaks to his drive and perseverance and his humble nature. Kaba also wants to offer vocational training at Rhino camp in fashion and mechanical farming.

Young girls at the camp told Kaba they wanted to learn to sew their own clothes so they could later design fashion in Uganda and elsewhere. He also wants to make sure all of them learn to read, so some can get an education in the nearby town of Arua. Related: After traumatic hospital birth, Lansing mother starts doula service for Black women.

But money soon became tight. At that point, it just became hard on her to take care of us. Kaba moved out of the city to find work as a gardener and help his mother make ends meet, sending money home when he could. Kaba contacted the U. But because he was young — 16 at the time — a staffer placed him on a list to be sent to the U.

He didn't accept the relocation until years later, inwhen his luck had run low. But the U. Residents of Kaba's native Rhino camp face a number of waterborne illnesses, from dysentery to E. All lansing kaba biography of donald costly and can be fatal. When Kaba contracted typhoid fever and dysentery during his own visit back home, he said he felt like he was going to die.

The fuel needed to boil water to safe levels isn't readily available in Rhino camp, Kaba said, in part because Uganda's government restricts the use of firewood for cooking in an attempt to curb deforestation. Before the pandemic, the Ugandan government would survey areas in need of infrastructural attention, he said. But it has since paused projects in the area, as have some NGOs.

Ken Chester, a longtime friend of Kaba's, suggested he start a crowdfunding campaign for a well. Chester, a student at the time, offered to let Kaba use his car to learn. The two stayed close friends. Herskovits Prize for best work in English in African Studies. Instead, Kaba accepted a position teaching African history at the University of Minnesota inwhere he remained until During that time, Kaba spent — in Senegal as a Fulbright Scholar.

There, he served as dean of the Honors College from to A colleague here, French professor Jane A. In that capacity, he also gave occasional lectures at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. He officially retired from there inthough he had returned to the US in due to the Covid pandemic. InKaba served as president of the African Studies Association.

His presidential address was a forceful response to Henry Louis Gates Jr.