Joseph Kiwanuka

Owner/Director

Hi, I am ‘Chiwa’, a passionate Safari guide in East Africa. I love to read, meet new people, discover new places and also to also enjoy digging into a deliciously cooked meal. Seeing different animals and going on new adventures has helped shape my tour operator career. My tour guide journey started over 15 years ago when I would escort my father on some of his adventures in Tanzania. I have always known what i wanted to be from my childhood days and meeting all these wonderful people from different walks of life has further shaped my guiding journey. I am fascinated by animals in their natural habitat going about their usual business. I find fulfillment in sharing these wonderful experiences with others.

When I am not out in the plains of Queen Elizabeth National Park chasing after tree-climbing lions or trying to spot the shy leopard, a herd of elephants would stubbornly try to block my way. Sometimes my journeys lead me to the cool hide-outs of the mountain gorillas and how humbling is it here to come within close range with the Silverback. Nature is exciting and gives me life-changing memories every day.

I would not trade my guiding career for anything else. I invite you to join me on one of my next adventures in East Africa. Let’s do life the fun easy way. See you soon!

Lawrence “of Uganda”

Head Safari Guide

Meet Lawrence, who prefers to introduce himself as ‘Lawrence of Uganda’ or by his famous nickname fourteen – 14. Lawrence is one of the senior guides at Native Expeditions having joined our Team as soon as the company was founded. Lawrence’s passion for nature and conservation shaped his guiding career and he took up guiding expeditions as early as 1993 when Tourism was just taking shape in Uganda.

He has guided so many trips in both Uganda and Rwanda that he has lost count. He is passionate about wildlife and especially Birds.

On any typical safari morning, clad in his exquisitely pressed trousers, shirt and donning a cap compete with a pair of Binoculars, one cannot help but notice his outstanding sense of style. Some guests have joked about his pressed trousers and how he could get down to fix a bad tyre on a rainy day.

When he is not at work or on a trip with guests, he spends some of his quiet time in the countryside at his family home with his family enjoying a locally cooked Ugandan meal of stewed beans with steamed matooke (plantain). His life is full of rich historic tales and he will take you through the lineage of leadership and power dynamics in Uganda over the years. He is always eager and quick to remind the listener that he was there, present at the time when all those events happened, not hearsay!

‘My favourite National Park will always be Murchison Falls National Park’ he say, before adding, ‘it has everything you need on a typical African safari’