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Nam Kiwanuka

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Mary Namugenyi "Nam" Kiwanuka (born Namugenyi Kiwanuka) is a Ugandan-Canadian television personality and journalist, currently the host of the TVO news and documentary program The Thread. Kiwanuka came to Canada with her family in 1983, following the civil war in Uganda. She was given the Anglo-Protestant moniker Mary.

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