Jimmy Spire Ssentongo, born in 1979, is an award-winning Ugandan academic, columnist, portraitist, author and self-taught cartoonist. He has worked for The Observer newspaper (Uganda) since 2006. In 2021, he won two national awards. He holds a doctorate in philosophy and also works at university, having served as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Uganda Martyrs University. He has edited two volumes of books and published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, books and monographs. He also published a collection of his cartoons entitled Uncomfortable Laughter in 2020.
