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Lydia Nabunya Nsaale Kitayimbwa

Ugandan Female chaplain and researcher

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Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ116257607 ↗
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Lydia Nabunya Nsaale Kitayimbwa (born April 1979), known as Digital Mama, is a Ugandan religious leader She is the first female chaplain of St. Francis Chapel at Makerere University.

Early life

Kitayimbwa was born and raised in Bwaise-kawempe. She attended went St. Joseph Nsambya Girls' School for secondary education. In 2001, she enrolled at Makerere University to pursue a Bachelor of Statistics, which she completed in 2004. She pursued her master's degree at Uganda Christian University (UCU), school of Divinity and Theology. In 2019, she enrolled for her Doctoral Studies in practical theology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa which she earned in December 2022. Her research topic was "communicating the gospel in the digital age". She received the nickname "Digital Mama" from youths who attend online church platforms she ran as coordinator of the online church of Uganda during the COVID-19 lockdown.

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“Lydia Nabunya Nsaale Kitayimbwa” enters the record as ugandan Female chaplain and researcher. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lydia, Nabunya and Nsaale can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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