Citizenship Īccording to a voter registration application submitted on 6 July 2012, Ssempa is a United States citizen. He later received a Master of Arts degree in counselling from Cairn University. Ssempa graduated from Makerere with a Bachelor's degree in Social Science, specialising in sociology. He travelled the country with a drama group that performed in schools in an effort to educate students about AIDS. Ssempa converted to Evangelical Christianity at the Wandegeya Baptist Youth Center. When they died in 1990, he blamed their promiscuity and feared that his lifestyle would also lead to his death via AIDS thus, he decided to take action. Ssempa sat by their beds as they grew sicker. In 1988, Ssempa was admitted to Makerere University.ĭuring his time at the University, both Ssempa's brother and sister contracted HIV. During his teenage years he became a celebrity in East Africa as the national break dancing champion. He then went to Rubaga Boys' Secondary School, before he completed his A level at Namilyango College. Ssempa went to Kimanya Primary School in Masaka and St. His mother was a teacher and he changed schools often as a child. Martin Ssempa was born in Naluzaale of Uganda's Masaka District in 1968 to a single mother.
