Our Team

Born of Namulesa Village in Jinja City, Uganda, Isaac Imaka is a journalist by profession, a media entrepreneur and practitioner and a community organizer.

His interest in sports is rooted in the deep conviction that sports does not only create community champions, but it can turn around the household financial fortunes and those of an entire village.

“One international sports pro could be all a village needs to kick poverty out of its homesteads,” he says.

Imaka is a graduate of Mass Communication from Makerere University and an Alfred Friendly Press Fellow- University of Missouri/Miami Herald, who formally worked with the Nation Media Group under its Uganda Based outfit, The Daily Monitor, as a Parliament and oil and Gas Correspondent.
>br> Imaka holds an Executive MBA from the Eastern and Southern Africa Management Institute and is the founder and publisher of Busoga Today Media and Publications, a social enterprise community development and mobilization multimedia enterprise, the publishers of Busoga Today, a dual lingua community newspaper.

Imaka is also the founder and team leader at Gabula Royal Foundation, a community development organization founded and patronized by the Kyabazinga (King) of Busoga Kingdom. He is also among the inaugural recipients of the Young: Rural Entrepreneurs Initiative fellowship, a program running under the partnership of Busoga Consortium for Development and the Chinese University of Agriculture to set rural CEOs on the path of developing their communities better.

As a co-founder and team leader at East Enders, Isaac’s role is to lead the organization’s strategic efforts and mission of identifying, nurturing and developing grassroots sports talents and use sports as a tool to turn around household fortunes.

To goal is to have an East Enders grassroots product play at the highest professional level of either cricket, tennis, basketball, golf or any other sport we are involved with.