Uganda, April 13 -- Sarah Nyendwoha Ntiro was a Ugandan educator, feminist, activist, academic and trailblaser.

"In 1954, I graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in History. I have since been recognised as the first woman university graduate from East and Central Africa. I am profoundly humbled to be the bearer of that legacy," she wrote in her memoirs, aptly entitled "Emboldened."

In this inspirational telling of a life lived abundantly, Ntiro shares how she grew up in Hoima District as a daughter of a princess of Bunyoro Kingdom and prominent son of that soil to study in King's College Budo and St Anne's College in Oxford university.

This autobiographical portraiture captures not only the story of Ntiro as a boundary-breaking feminist c...