Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Ojijo's CV & Profile


 


Profile

I add value to people by volunteering, and selling something.  I volunteer in training investment clubs with Investment Clubs Association of Uganda (ICAU), and coaching women entrepreneurs with TechnoServe. I sell my skills as  bestselling author of 29 books, ICT lawyer, law firm management expert, performance poet, armature pianist, public speaker and coach on financial literacy, investment clubs and personal branding; luo culture specialist; consultant on business systems, feasibility studies, financial projections and business profiles expert; owner, www.lawpronto.com, www.allpublicspeakers.com, www.achibela.com, www.luopedia.com, www.ajuoga.com and priceapp. 
I am also a performance poet, armature pianist, social entrepreneur, blogger, socialist political party member, and believer in open religion.

Contact

A: Tirupati Mazima Mall, Kabalagala, Kampala, Uganda (c/o, ALL PUBLIC SPEAKERS LIMITED, Rm 261/2)

E: ojijo@allpublicspeakers.com 

M: +256 776 1000 59/701 100059

L: +256 41 4696004/31 251 7908


Websites
 
Blogs
 
 

Skills

 
Language: Luo, Kiswahili and English (Fluent) French, German, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish (Rudimentary, Learning)

Talent: Performance poetry, public speaking and writing

Degree: Bachelors of Laws Degree (LLB) University of Nairobi (Kenya) and Makerere University (Uganda) (2004-2011)

Counseling: certificate in peer guidance and counseling- Maseno National School / Agape Training Organization, (2001)).

Mentor: trained entrepreneurship mentor to women entrepreneurs in Uganda under technoserve women mean business program. (2013)

Public Speaker & Trainer: financial literacy, personal branding, public speaking, and investments clubs.

Consultant Lawyer & Guest Lecturer: legal research, law firm management, ICT law; legal rhetoric; and Afrikan jurisprudence.

Author. 31 books and several articles on various disciplines and topics

 

Financial Literacy Expertise

 

2013: Chair of Investments Clubs Panel, Focus on East Africa Uganda Local Capital & Financial Markets’ Forum

2012-: Member of Bank of Uganda Working Group on Financial Literacy to the Youth to develop guidelines, curriculum and content for promoting financial literacy in Uganda.

2012-: Member of Interim Committee of Investment Clubs Association of Uganda, in-charge of training and capacity building of investment clubs in Uganda (visited and trained over 20 investment clubs).

2012-: Public Speaker & Trainer on financial literacy and personal branding with allpublicspeakers.com, under free college exit seminar program.

2012: Facilitating trainer on financial freedom & leadership (personal branding) for high school student leaders of 7 high schools, with Hope Alive Ministries, at Makerere High School, Migadde, Uganda.

2012: MC and Facilitator of Annual Financial Literacy Week, at UMA Showground, Lugogo, a week of financial literacy lectures and presentations by Investors-Club; and other stake holders

2012: Trained employees of Ministry of finance, Uganda, under the finance savings and credit cooperative society (SACCO) on financial literacy, investing, investment clubs, personal branding, goal setting, financial freedom and enterprise start-up.

2012: Talk Show host to FOWODE Alumni on Entrepreneurship.

2012: Guest Speaker to Youth with A Purpose (YAP-Uganda), on Financial Literacy & Personal Branding.

2012: Volunteer trainer of Makerere University Female Students on Public Speaking (steered 4 out of 5 to the national champions, in which champions they won positions 1-4).

2009: Volunteer Public Speaker & Trainer with InformedInvestors on Financial Literacy and Investment Clubs support.

2011: MC and Facilitator of Annual Financial Literacy Week, at UMA Showground, Lugogo, a week of financial literacy lectures and presentations by Investors-Club; and other stake holders

2011:  Consultant to CEDA International. Developing financial literacy curriculum for teens and young adults.

2011:  Consultant to Private Education Development Network (PEDN). Developing a curriculum for training teens (13-19) and young adults (19-24).

2011: Guest Speaker & Trainer of Trainers to CEDA International.

2011: Guest Speaker & Trainer of Trainers to Private Education Development Network (PEDN).

2011: Trained by Regional Securities Training Institute-SITI on Introduction to Financial Markets & Instruments/Participants Training

2010: Trained by KYADEVA Uganda on SACCOs Formation & Community Development

2011: Presented a paper on Youth & Access to Credit for Teens Uganda at Uganda National Youth Congress.

2012: Personal Skills & Rhetoric: Peer Training for Young Leaders Think Tank for Policy Alternatives (Konrad Adenour Stiftung-Uganda).

2011: Guest Speaker at First Annual Youth Entrepreneurship Conference on “Financial Integration & Inclusion of Youth”, organised by Private Education Development Network, PEDN

2010: Guest Speaker on Dynamism in Careers: The Need for Knowledge at Makerere University Business School, MUBS, Kampala,

2010: Guest Speaker on Volunteering, Internship and Apprenticeship as Tools of Career Development: (Delivered at Management Training and Advisory Centre (MTAC)

2010: Guest Speaker on Student Insecurity: Internal Insecurity (Delivered at Makerere Business School, Kampala, Uganda)

2010: Guest Speaker on The Need to Be Rich: Financial Instruments Investing (Delivered at a Function organized by Enterprise Uganda at Makerere University, Kampala.)

2010-: KFM Guest Speaker on Financial Literacy & Personal Development, airing on KFM radio at 6 am. 

2011: Guest Speaker to FOWODE Alumni (FYLAA) on Entrepreneurship & Investments.

 

Strategic Planning, Business Systems & Financial Projections Expertise

 

2013: Consultant to MEBO Theatre

2013: Consultant to Security Group, Uganda Limited

2013:  Consultant to East Africa Roofing Systems, on strategic business plan, business systems, financial projections, and feasibility study;

2013:  Consultant to Nile Hatcheries. Developing business systems;

2013:  Consultant to Tirupati Development, Developing Financial Projections and Project Proposals;

2013:  Consultant to Virat Alloys, Developing Strategic Plan and Financial Projections;

2013:  Consultant to Private Education Development Network (PEDN). Developing a strategic plan and business systems;

2012: Consultant to Investment Clubs Association of Uganda (ICAU) on development of strategic plan.

2010-: Trainer with InformedInvestors on strategic planning for investment clubs.

2007: Consultant to Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) on strategic plan

2011: Consultant to African Jesuits Aids Network-AJAN. Developing a curriculum on HIV/AIDS prevention amongst the youth, with special reference to Catholic Teachings.

 

 

Law of ICT Expertise (Policy & Legal Issues in E-Commerce and E-Governance)

 

2013; Conducting Guest Lecture/workshop presentation on “Law, New Media and Art” at National theatre, Uganda, on the theatre festival.

2012-; Conducting ICT Law seminars to lawyers, corporate executives, staff of organisations and students

2012-: Guest Lectures to Universities and Colleges, including Nkumba University, Cavendish, IUIU and Makerere University LAW Schools;

2012: Tuition to Makerere University undergraduate students of law on Computer & the Law.

2012: Seminar to Islamic University of Uganda (IUIU), on ICT Law.

2009-: Writing articles on ICT & The law (published variously)

 

(Legal) Research & Training Expertise (Legal Rhetoric)

 

2012-: guest Lecturer on legal rhetoric, ict law and policy, and Afrikan jurisprudence to various universities in Uganda;

2012: Moot Court Trainer for Nkumba University Moot Court Club on International Humanitarian Law.

2007: Research Consultant with Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) on the 2006 Bi-Annual Human Rights Report (BHHR)

2005-: Legal Researcher with Africa Legal Research & Consultancy (ALREC GROUP).

2006-2008: Associate Editor University of Nairobi Law Journal (UNLJ)

2011: Editor Makerere Law Journal

2004: Trained by Independent Medical Legal Unit on “Legal Aid and Research Organization Process”.

2005: Trained by Kenya Christian Lawyers Fellowship (KCLF). “The Methodology of Prison Legal Aid and Clinic Exercise’

2007. Trained by National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA), USA/ Federation of Women Lawyers, FIDA-Kenya. Trial Advocacy (Case Analysis, Witness Examination and Adduction of Exhibits)

2006: Trained by Kenya National Aids NGOs Consortium – KANCO on Cultural Issues affecting women infected with HIV/AIDS in Western and Eastern Kenya.

2011-12: Contributed to the Employment Policies for Uganda: Young Leaders Perspectives, Publication by Young Leaders Think Tank for Policy Alternatives (Konrad Adenour Stiftung-Uganda), 2012.

2005: Presented a paper in the All East African Moot Court Conference, Moi University, Eldoret, titled “Law as a Tool for Social Emancipation”

2006: Presented a paper in the Professor Justice J.B. Ojwang Research Award Project, University of Nairobi titled “The Constitution and Economy of a Country: Kenya”

2007: Presented a paper on “Ethnicity and its Effect on the Development of African States” at the 2nd East African Moot Court Conference at University of Nairobi.

2010: Presented dissertation thesis on Access To Information And Participatory Development: An Analysis Of The Effectiveness Of Access To Information Act, No. 6 of 2005 (Uganda) as LLB degree award in Makerere University, Kampala.

2011: Book Review of “Toward a Global Civilization of Love & Tolerance” by M. Fethullah Gülen, appeared in the Nile Humanitarian Agency Newsletter.

2011:  Consultant Editor for Konrad Adenuer Stiftung (KAS), on Reality Check- State Of Multi Party Democracy In Uganda, funded and organized. Edited by Mathias Kamp & Kiranda Yusuf.

2011. Wrote a journal article on Constitutionalism & Constitutionality in Uganda: in Makerere University Law Journal, volume 3, 2011

2005-2007: volunteer with Kenya Christian Lawyer’s Fellowship (KCLF) on Legal research on evidentiary issues and brief preparation and Free Legal aid and advice services in the Industrial Area Prison.

2005-2006. Volunteered Kenya Christian Lawyer’s Fellowship (KCLF) as Research Assistant in the preparation of the suit against the Referendum and the ultimate promulgation of the then 2005 Draft Constitution;

2005: volunteered with Kenya Christian Lawyer’s Fellowship (KCLF) as trainer on Constitutional Issues in the Draft Constitution.

2006-2007: Volunteered with Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) on free legal aid and service provision as student assistant.

2006: volunteered with Tabasamu Watoto in a Legal Aid Clinic at Machakos women prison)

2006: volunteered as student assistant with Federation of Women Lawyers FIDA-KENYA & Law Society of Kenya LSK 2006, Participated in free legal aid week.

2008: Worked with International Commission of Jurists-Kenya Chapter, Public Interest Course, Participated in and researched on the areas of International Legal Regime & Practice on Access to Information Laws and their effects; Rapportured on Community Based Workshops on access to information law; and Researched on Truth & Justice Commissions with specific reference to review of the Kenya Truth & Justice Commission Bill, 2008.

2009: Volunteered with Oscar Foundation for Free Legal Aid, Kenya, volunteered in report editing and formatting of the report presented to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extra Judicial Killings and Forced Disappearances.

 

Rapporteur Expertise

 

2010: Rapporteur to Konrad Adenuer Stiftung (KAS).

2009: Rapporteur to International Law Institute-African Centre for Legal Excellence

2007: Rapporteur with Center for Law and Research International (CLARION) on book launch

2005-2007: Rapporteur to Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) on human rights

2008: Rapportured for International Commission of Jurists-Kenya Chapter on Community Based Workshops on Access To Information Law.

 

Constitutionalism, Human Rights & Governance Expertise

 

2010: Consultant to Konrad Adenuer Stiftung, Kampala. Development of a model democratic political party manifesto.

2008-2009: Consultant Trainer to Constitution & Education Reform Consortium -CRE-CO

2005-2007: Rapporteur to Kenya Human Rights Commission

2007: Electoral observer Electoral Commission of Kenya/Youth Agenda

2008-2009: Consultant Trainer with 4Cs in Development of training curriculum and facilitation of training workshops on Constitutions, Constitutionalism and Constitutionality.

2009: Consultant Trainer with 4Cs in Development of training curriculum and facilitation of training workshops on Constitutions, Constitutionalism and Constitutionality.

2011: Trained by Konrad Adenuer Stiftung-KAS Uganda on The Policy Making Process, and the Role of Youth in National Policy Making.

2010: trained by Uganda Police and KYADEVA Uganda on Community Policing.

2010: Trained by Uganda Youth Network on Role of Youth in Mitigation of Election Violence (strategies)

2006: Trained by Kenya Human Rights Commission. “Training On Community Advocacy Skills Empowerment”

2006: Trained by Youth Agenda and Konrad Adenuer Stiftung Young Leadership Development Program on “Student Leadership and Trade Unionism”

2011-12: Contributed to the Employment Policies for Uganda: Young Leaders Perspectives, Publication by Young Leaders Think Tank for Policy Alternatives (Konrad Adenour Stiftung-Uganda), 2012.

2011: Presented a paper on The Role of Youth in National Policy Making for Teens Uganda at National Youth Congress.

2005: Facilitated the conference on the “Northern Kenya Human Rights Agenda-History of Human Rights Abuses in the Northern Kenya”, by the Kenya Human Rights Commission in Isiolo (2005).

2010: Founding Member of Young Leaders Think Tank for Policy Alternatives, hosted by Konrad Adenuer Stiftung, (KAS) Uganda.

2010: Participated in the National Youth Manifesto Launch In Uganda, under Uganda Youth Network.

2009: Participated a paper titled, Combating Impunity: The Need To Implement The Waki Report, At The CSO Meeting In Hilton Hotel, January, 2009.

2007: Participated in the Peoples Constitutional Conference organised by the National Constitutional Executive Council-NCEC

2005: Participated in a workshop on “Water as a Human Right”, organized by the Kenya Human Rights Commission and the Government of Kenya, in Isiolo.

2005: Trained in “Youth and Sexuality- A Critical Analysis at the Life in Campuses”  by the Centre for Research, Education and Awareness, CREAW.

2006: Facilitated a conference on “The Role of Youth in the GJLO's Initiative” and programs, organized by the national youth network consortium, in conjunction with Center for Law and Research International, (Clarion).

2010-2011: Consultant to Citizens Coalition for Electoral Democracy in Uganda (CCEDU), under Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI), on community training & media liaison on electoral democracy and constitutionalism.

 

Publications ( Ojijo's 29 Books)

 
Financial Literacy & Investment Books

 

1.          Sell Something: Ojijo’s Guide to Entrepreneurship Mindset & Business Systems

2.          Invest: Ojijo’s Guide to Financial Instruments & Alternative Investment Products

3.          Making My Child Financially Intelligent: Money Lessons by Age Group (from 3-13yrs)

4.          Making Money Together: Ojijo’s Investment Club Manual

5.          69 Ways to Make Extra Money While Keeping My Day Job

6.          Retire Happy: 21 Questions to Plan my Retirement

7.          I Am A Network Marketer: Ojijo’s Network Marketing Guide

 

Personal Branding Books

 

8.          Talanta: Ojijo’s Guide to Identifying, Developing & Selling My Talent & Career Skills

9.          Cause Action: Ojijo Public Speaking Handbook

10.       The Gift of E11even Moves to Make Me Wealthy

11.       Seventy-7 Moves of a Sexy Woman

12.       Self-Discipline: What, Why & How

13.       99 Ways to Make People Laugh

14.       Soft Sweet Words

 

Politics & Religion Books

 

15.       The Mungiki - Terrorists, Victims, Saints- Three Sides of the Same Coin!

16.       100 Upright Men: World’s Greatest Revolutionary Politicians

17.       Politics of Poverty: The Odinga Curse to the Luos

18.       Open Religion: My Religion is the Best Religion

19.       Garveyism: The Philosophy of Marcus Garvey

20.       Why Did Hitler Kill The Jews?

 

Law Books

 

21.       Afrikan Jurisprudence: Luo Theories, Institutions and Procedures of Law and Justice

22.       Legal Issues in e-Commerce & e-Governance

23.       Rich Lawyers: Officers of the Court & Owners of Business (Law Firm Management Handbook)

24.       Legal Rhetoric: Principles, Presumptions, Doctrines, Rules, and Tests of Law

 

Other Books

 

25.       The Luo Nation: History, Culture, Traditional Medicine & Conversational Phrases of Joluo (The Luo People Of Africa)

26.       My Body: 100 Common Medical Symptoms, Causes, Possible Diseases, Treatment, Home Remedies & Prevention

27.       Tuongee Kiswahili Conversational Phrasebook (With Audio CDs)

28.       Fireplace Stories: Ojijo’s Performance Poems 

29.       The Half Story of My Life: Follow Your Heart, Live Your Dream

 

Publications (Articles, Papers)

 

1.       Contributor to African Executive

2.       Blogger

3.       The Two Spiders

4.       The Wisdom of Climbing Mountains

5.       So! Do You Have A Party?

6.       The Right to Money

 

Memberships/Affiliations 

 

Rotary International-Charter Member, (Rotary Club of Nakasero, Kampala, Uganda)

Red Cross (Life Member)

 

Voluntary Service

 

2013-: free trainings for vacation students and business people on business systems, and life after school.

2013: volunteer with volunteeringfriends, cleaning kamokya Suburb, Kampala

2013: Volunteer with volunteeringfriends to clean Naguru Police Post, Kampala

2010-: Volunteer investment club coach with various organizations, including InformedInvestors, and Investment Clubs Association Of Uganda;

2010-2012: Volunteer public speaker & trainer in financial literacy & personal branding with InformedInvestors.

2011-: Member of Rotary International

2004-2006: Volunteered with Kenya Christian Lawyers Fellowship) as student assistant in legal research, training and drafting.

2006-2007: Volunteered with Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) on free legal aid and service provision as student assistant.

2006: Kenya Ethical Legal Issues Network, (KELIN)/International Commission of Jurists (ICJ-Kenya) - Participated in a free legal aid clinic and advice at Rarieda Constituency, Bondo District.

2004-2006: Student Association for Legal Aid and Research (SALAR) 2005, Provided free legal aid and advice in Jamhuri Grounds at the Nairobi Agricultural Society of Kenya Shows; Parklands Campus and in Kibira Slums.

2010: Organized and participated in a Bikers Camp in support of Bombo Childrens Home, Elohim Child Development Association, based in Bombo, Kampala. (October, 2010).

2006-2007: Volunteered with Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) on free legal aid and service provision as student assistant.

2006: volunteered with Tabasamu Watoto in a Legal Aid Clinic at Machakos women prison)

2006: volunteered as student assistant with Federation of Women Lawyers FIDA-KENYA & Law Society of Kenya LSK 2006, Participated in free legal aid week.

 

Advisory Memberships

 

Private Education Development Network (PEDN)-Uganda

Investment Clubs Association of Uganda (ICAU)-Uganda.

Bank of Uganda Financial Literacy Advisory Working Group -Uganda

 

Leadership

 

Owner and director, allpublicspeakers.com, 2013-

Owner and principal partner, Lawpronto.com, 2013-

Vice School Captain, Maseno National High School (Kenya) 2001-2002

Secretary General, Kenya Law Students Society (KLSS), University of Nairobi, Kenya 2005-2006

Chairperson, Students of Law & Diplomacy (SOLAD), School of Law, University of Nairobi, 2006-2007

Editor, University of Nairobi Law Journal (UONLJ) (2006-2008)

Editor, Makerere Law Journal (2009-2010)

 

Hobbies

 

§  Performance Poetry . Public Speaking. Playing Piano

 

Referees (Available on Request)