Exclusive Q&A with Prof. Ddumba, the Chairman of Centenary Bank Group and rudder of the Group’s phenomenal growth for the last 20 years This year, the Centenary Group will celebrate its 40th anniversary. From a very humble beginning, first as an idea in 1979 and subsequently in 1983 as Centenary Rural Development Trust under the Uganda National Catholic Lay Association, and then a fully-fledged commercial bank in 1993, the Centenary story has unfurled to become one of Uganda’s most successfully indigenously majority-owned financial and digital services company with UGX5.8 trillion (USD1.55 billion) in assets, as at the end of 2022.