How Namilyango keeps producing Uganda's architects

Namilyango College’s old boys are conspicuous in one profession above others: architecture. Walk into half the established practices in Kampala and you will find a Namilyangan partner.

The school has never run an "architecture track". What it has is a long maths-and-art overlap, strong technical-drawing teaching that survived the subject’s national decline, and an alumni network that mentors the next cohort.

Pupils sit with practising architects during the long holidays; portfolios get critiqued by the people who do the hiring. The pipeline is informal, but it is real.

For a parent weighing a son’s route into the built-environment professions, the Namilyango network is a genuine, if unadvertised, asset.