All his academic degrees were awarded by Makerere University, Uganda's oldest and largest public university. Following the fall of the Idi Amin's regime in 1979, Tarsis Kabwegyere was appointed Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, serving in that position until 1980. From 1982 until 1987, he was the Head of Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Makerere University, Uganda's oldest university, which was founded in 1922.
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Tarsis Kabwegyere