{{short description|Ugandan writer (1941–2008)}} {{refimprove|date=May 2024}} {{Infobox writer | birth_name = Tumusiime Rushedge | image = | caption = | birth_date = 1941 | birth_place = Bushenyi District, Uganda | death_date = {{death year and age|2008|1941}} | death_place =Kabwohe, Uganda | occupation = Medical doctor, writer | pseudonym = Tom Rush | nationality = | education = | alma_mater = Makerere University, Ntare School | genre = Fiction | subject = | notableworks = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | Twitter = | website = }} '''Tumusiime Rushedge''' (1 March 1941 – 2008) was a Ugandan surgeon, pilot, novelist, cartoonist and newspaper columnist. He was known as "Tom Rush". He wrote a weekly column in the ''Sunday Vision'', called "Old Fox". He was the brain behind the cartoon strip "Ekanya", which was published daily in the ''New Vision''. The cartoons centred on the drunken character Ekanya and his struggling wife Rosie, and has remained popular since the early 1970s.<ref name=observer>{{cite web|title=Death rushes Old Fox|url=http://observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=422:moses-talemwa|first=Moses|last=Talemwa|website=The Observer|date=9 July 2008|access-date=15 December 2014}}</ref> He is the author of a novel, ''The Corrupt, the Quick and the Dead''.<ref name=africabookclub>{{cite web|title=The Corrupt, the Quick and the Dead (by Tumusiime Rushegye)|url=http://africabookclub.com/?p=11631|accessdate=15 December 2014}}</ref><ref name=theeastafrican>{{cite web|title=With cops on your side, the law is yours to break|url=http://theeastafrican.co.ke/magazine/With-cops-on-your-side-the-law-is-yours-to-break-/-/434746/1662308/-/bqkrh1/-/index.html|access-date=15 December 2014}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Tumusiime was born on 1 March 1941 in Buhweju county, Bushenyi District. He was the first-born of seven children, born to the Rev. Andereya Rushedge and Eseza Bantu. He grew up in a Christian home and during his childhood, he was greatly involved in Emmanuel Church Kabwohe as a drummer calling worshippers to Sunday service.
He attended Kibubura Boys Primary School in Ibanda, for his primary education. For secondary education, he went on to Mbarara High School (1954–1957) and Ntare School (1958–1960). He designed the school badge of Ntare school while a student there. He studied medicine at Makerere University in 1961. There, again he excelled and in 1966 he graduated with honours, going on to specialise in ear, nose and throat (ENT). He attained a postgraduate diploma at Medical School. He went for further studies in the US and attained a master's degree in surgery in Chicago. For his accomplishment in the medical fields of ENT and neurology, he was awarded a professorship.<ref name="new-vision">{{cite web |last=Ahimbisibwe |first=Chris |date=25 June 2008 |title=Tom Rush: A comet of 100 years |url=https://www.newvision.co.ug/news/1186957/tom-rush-comet-100 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802234257/https://www.newvision.co.ug/news/1186957/tom-rush-comet-100 |archive-date=2 August 2020 |access-date=15 December 2014 |website=The New Vision}}</ref>
==Published works== *{{cite book|title=The Corrupt, the Quick and the Dead| publisher= Fountain Publishers| year=2012 | isbn=978-9970-25-129-2 }} *{{cite book|title=Ekanya 25: Selected cartoon and story highlights of EKANYA since his inception in 1969 AD /Tumusiime-Rushedge| publisher= TAI-PAN Publication| year=1994 | isbn= }} *{{cite book|title=Ekanya: The Side Splitter| publisher= Uganda Publishing House| year=1973 | isbn= }} *{{cite book|title=The bull's horn| publisher= Oxford University Press| year=1972 | isbn= }}
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