Educated at Bumasikye Primary School and Nabumali High School up to 1956, Wamukota went on to study Medicine in Pakistan (1957-61) and Israel (1963-70), prior to successfully pursuing PhD studies at Makerere Medical School where he was already serving as lecturer since 1973, and from which he eventually retired at the rank of Associate Professor in 1999, aged 65. When I first heard of Dr. Wamukota, being myself a young lecturer at Makerere University, he was described as the doctor who had studied Medicine for seven years, and then for a further seven years on another continent! And that for the second set of seven years he had become a countryman of Jesus and become fluent in Hebrew! True to the Hippocratic Oath, he never advertised himself, never set up a medical clinic or subscribed to one, and always declined offers of money from his patients, telling them to go and buy with that money the medication he had just prescribed. “The walking doctor,” as he was popularly called, was also never known to own a car or even a bicycle; but was forever on his feet crossing Katanga Valley to Mulago from Makerere University hill, where he resided for many years. After he was one day knocked down by a speeding car between Wandegeya and Mulago, while on his way from work, his supervisors made available a chauffeured vehicle for his use. But it was later reported that he became sorry for the driver who sat around idly waiting for him, and permanently sent away both the vehicle and the driver. The testimonies of some of his former students present at the commissioning of the medical center – who included his niece Dr. Christine Watera and Dr. Emmanuel Othieno, the current Head of the Department of Pathology – portrayed a role model doctor of exceptional intellectual caliber, professional excellence, generosity to patients, and personal simplicity. In the seminar room, seated at the back and listening to his students’ presentations, we were told, Wamukota was hardly felt until some ill-prepared student made some unfortunate error, and then from the rear came a roar of disapproval – and they all knew he was keenly present in the seminar. For me the most unforgettable utterance that I ever heard Dr. Wilson Wamukota make was absolutely breath-taking. We were one evening socializing at Makerere University Senior Staff Club, when that facility was still located in the Main Building. In the middle of our one-to- one science-based conversation at the bar counter, he suddenly screwed his eyes on me and made his ecstatic pronouncement – “The moment we cut through a neuron of the central nervous system while maintaining the electricity flow, we shall cry, ‘Eureka! O death, where is thy victory?’” A neuron being a cell that carries information within the nervous system, Dr. Wamukota’s vision was that of the ultimate abolition of death once the above condition is fulfilled! In his voice I could hear the triumph of Archimedes upon discovering the Principle of Floatation, and of St. Paul declaring the final conquest of death by Christ’s resurrection.