The Uganda Muslim Education Association (UMEA) is a fully registered Muslim Education Secretaria that serves all Muslim Education stakeholders across the country and plays the role of foundation body for Muslim faith based schools and institutions established under its patronage or affiliated to it.

It is non political, non sectarian and non profi t organisation established in 1936 by the late prince Badru Kakungulu and his colleagues to take care of Muslim education at the time when the colonial governement had entrusted education in the hands of the Christian missionaries who deliberately excluded Muslims or converted them before admission to their schools.

But the prince and his peers then were aware that without secular education the Muslim community would neither share the national cake nor fit into the new world reality. Hence, they set up UMEA to ensure that Muslims achieve both secular and Islamic religious education.

UMEA operated alongside the catholic and protestant education secretariats and effecively oversaw the establishment and management of UMEA schools across the country. This was possible with the financial support of government and Muslim brothers in business, notably His Highness the Aghakhan and his associates.When government Nationalized Education in 1964 the Christian Secretariats withdrew into their churches and continued operating while UMEA was completely closed since there was no centralized Muslim leadership.