Science and technology When Proscovia Nabbanja got admitted to
study Chemistry and Geology at Makerere University, she didn’t
know what to expect in the program. In fact, she thought she was
going to study Geography, and she had never met a practicing
geologist When Proscovia Nabbanja got admitted to study
Chemistry and Geology at Makerere University, she didn’t know
what to expect in the program. In fact, she thought she was
going to study Geography, and she had never met a practicing
geologist. She made efforts to understand where the course she
was studying would lead her, and the only field she could relate
with was drilling boreholes. //Cue in: “I thought about working
in… Cue out:….going into the water// But she never even went to
the water field. Instead, her voluntary mapping work with Geo-
Maps right after university, gained her some experience, leading
her to become the first female Geologist at the Petroleum
Exploration and Production Department (PEPD) of the Ministry of
Energy and Minerals. And for