Amos Masaba Wekesa, is a businessman, entrepreneur and corporate executive in Uganda, who is the founder, proprietor and managing director of Great Lakes Safaris Limited, a tour operating company, in the African Great Lakes region.
[1] His conglomerate of related tour businesses grosses an estimated US$8 million annually, and employs in excess of 250 people.
[1][2] When he was ten years old, missionaries from the Salvation Army came and offered him sponsorship to elementary school.
He transferred to the town of Tororo, where he completed his elementary school, under sponsorship from the Salvation Army.
In 2001, with US$200 in savings, without a motor vehicle and with his office underneath a staircase, in Kampala, Amos Wekesa founded Great Lakes Safaris Limited.