This piece was a profile of Uganda’s first ever elected white politician, Dr. Ian Clarke, and his business, International Medical Group (IMG). Clarke is a GP from a farm in Co Armagh, who this year became mayor of Makindye Division, Kampala. This feature followed him from his early days in Armagh to what he’s become today: founder/CEO of a successful international medical conglomerate, philanthropist, author of 2 books, and successful African politician. Clarke’s story is compelling in itself, but as he has dedicated his life to development in Africa, his story is also a way of exploring some of Uganda’s toughest problems through the eyes of a man working to solve them.
This feature article ‘A Man For All Seasons’ was in the Irish Examiner on 20th August, 2012.
Grainne Harrington received the Simon Cumbers Media Grant in Winter 2011.
