Rafiki Theatre, pioneered by a group of students from the Department of Music, Dance, & Drama, of Makerere University – Uganda, was a program of the German Civil Peace Service Zfd Ziviler-Friedensdienst run by the German International Agency Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Entwicklungshilfe-AGEH financed by Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung-BMZ, the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, and coordinated by Claus Schrowange. It was incorporated in Uganda as Non-profit on 29th October 2010.