Sebastian Kakule Kyalwazi, (20 October 1920 - 25 January 1992), was a Ugandan consultant surgeon who served as professor and head of surgery at Makerere University School of Medicine and concurrently as senior consultant surgeon at Mulago National Referral Hospital from the early 1970s until his death in the early 1990s.
[1][2] Kyalwazi was born in Masaka District, in the Buganda Region of Uganda, where he was raised as a Roman Catholic.
[2] Kyalwazi was appointed as a lecturer in surgery at Makerere University Medical School in 1968.
[3] In 1968, he was elected as the president of the Association of Surgeons of East Africa, the first African to serve in that position.
[2] He was appointed lead surgeon on the medical team selected to treat Pope Paul VI on the pontiff's visit to Uganda in 1969, if the need arose.