Margaret Nankinga is the chairperson of the Luganda Lusoga Lugwere Vehicular Cross-border Language Commission in Uganda. The Commission is an initiative of the African Academy of Languages which is a body of the African Union with a mandate of empowering and promoting African languages, in partnership with the languages inherited from colonial times, as factors of integration, development, and respect for values, mutual understanding and peace. She has engaged in creating awareness about Ugandan languages, has set up reader's clubs in schools to encourage reading and writing of mother tongue and has done some translations of medical concepts into Luganda among others. She also works for a Luganda daily newspaper in Uganda as Projects Editor and has written for an online publication called Africawoman. Additionally, she has taught in Luganda secondary schools, and authored books in the language. Ms. Nankinga has a master's degree in education from Makerere University, Uganda.