Elizabeth Amukugo

Elizabeth Magano Amukugo (born 1 August 1954, in Windhoek, Khomas Region) is a Namibian politician and academic with the University of Namibia.

She became a member of SWAPO in 1974 and went into exile in Angola the same year, she continued into Zambia and then left to finish her education with Agha Khan Academy in Nairobi, Kenya.

Afterwards, she left for Sweden through Tanzania after her marriage to fellow Politician Ambassador Kaire Mbuende.

While in Sweden she worked actively with several organisations such as the Africa Groups, ISAK, ABF and several political parties.

Amukugo was a member of the Parliament of Namibia from 2000 to 2005 and served on the Standing Committee on Governmental Affairs, Standing Committee on the Reports of the Ombudsman also on the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Equality & Gender as well as Senior Representative of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Namibia Branch, Member of the National Executive Committee and of the National Council for the Congress of Democrats (CoD)[4][5] Amukugo was a Research Fellow with Lund University in Sweden from 1987 to 1990, a Lecturer with the former Academy for Tertiary Education now the Namibia University of Science and Technology around 1990 and 1991.