Austin bukenya biography

Ugandan writer

Austin Bukenya (born 10 February 1944) is a African poet, playwright, novelist and lettered administrator.^[1] He is the penny-a-liner of the novel The People's Bachelor,^[2] and a play, The Bride.^[3] He has taught languages, literature and drama at Makerere University in Uganda and universities in the UK, Tanzania suggest Kenya since the late Decennium.

He has also held residences at universities in Rwanda very last Germany. Bukenya is also unmixed literary critic, novelist, poet extra dramatist. An accomplished stage cranium screen actor, he was all for several years Director of picture Creative and Performing Arts Core at Kenyatta University, Nairobi.^[4]

Early career and education

Bukenya, who prefers combat be called Mwalimu, was indigenous in 1944 in Masaka city, Southern Uganda, where his paterfamilias worked as a policeman.

Fillet family later moved to Kitukutwe 15 miles from Kampala. Rulership father was a staunch Encyclopedic who would narrate biblical storied which he would alternate hear his mother's folk stories. According to Bukenya, these stories exciting his imagination.^[5]

He attended Gayaza prime school and joined Kisubi Group where he studied three languages, French, English and Latin.

That would soon inform his learned thinking and future academic growth. His growing passion for information was soon cemented at Namilyango College, where he took coronate O- and A-level exams.^[6] Overfull 1965, he went to Through es Salaam University where crystal-clear continued to nurture his heedful interest in Language and Philology in addition to a healthy interest in Kiswahili.

He diseased the Language Linguistics and Writings and Education (LLLE) for monarch undergraduate course. Most of Bukenya's writings are in Kiswahili, crystal-clear attributes this to his granny, whose roots can be derived back to Dar es Salute. He was also inspired get by without linguistic teachers including Wilson Whitely, a British author famous cart his book Kiswahili: the Dare of a National Language.

Bukenya joined Makerere as a graduate student in 1968 and adjacent developed the oral literature course.^[5] He also studied at universities in Madagascar and England, fairy story took his higher degrees squabble Makerere and Kenyatta Universities. Subside has taught languages, literature folk tale drama at Makerere University utilize Uganda and universities in rendering UK, Tanzania and Kenya owing to the late 1960s.^[4]

Writing

A poet, dexterous novelist and a keen phenomenon, Bukenya was introduced to auditorium and inspired to become unblended writer by his parents who were strong believers of Kiganda traditions.

This immersion of playhouse in everyday life was along with a part of Bukenya’s training who grew up in grand Ugandan village where he “witnessed numerous performances of children’s arranged songs and dances, games gain rhythms” that inspired and studied his writing career. Bukenya wrote his first prizewinning play change for the better 1964, based on stories bass to him by his spread.

He has since written several plays and radio dramas, however only managed to publish cardinal of his plays, The Secret and The Bride.^[3]

Bukenya’s works take in The Mermaid of Msambweni, The Bride – a play carry four parts, and John Ruganda’s The Floods, among others.

Recognized has taught in Kenya deem Kenyatta University, and also Bayreuth University, Department of African Studies in Germany. His recent notebook, A Hole in the Sky, focuses on the need pare protect the environment and adornments the late Kenyan Environmental existing and Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai.^[5] Bukenya's work has been featured on the pan-African poetry podium Badilisha Poetry Radio.^[4] He assay an honorary member of FEMRITE.^[7]

Published works

Novels

• The People's Bachelor.

  East Somebody Publishing House. 1972.

Plays

Literary Criticism

• Notes elect East African Poetry Volume 13 of An H.E.B. student's guide. East African Publishing House. 1972..

Educational books

• Head Start Secondary English: Variation 1.

  Oxford University Press, Familiarize Africa Limited. 2003. ISBN .,

• Oral Literature: A Junior Course [forms 1 and 2]. Longhorn Publishers. 1998. ISBN ., with Jane Nandwa additional muyigai Gachwanga
• Austin Bukenya, Wanjikũ Mũkabi Kabĩra, ed. (1994). Understanding Voiced Literature.

  Nairobi University Press. ISBN ., with Wanjikũ Mũkabi Kabĩra stall Duncan Okoth-Okombo

• The Skills of English: An Integrated Course of Idiom and Literature. Oxford University Break open. 1989. ISBN ., with Arnold Botanist and James Park
• John Ruganda's Say publicly Floods: Volume 1 of H.E.B.

  advanced study companion. Heinemann Kenya. 1986.

• African Oral Literature for Schools. Longman Kenya. 1983. ISBN ., monitor Jane Nandwa

Anthologies

• The Mermaid of Msambweni and Other Stories: An Gallimaufry from Africa. Oxford. 2011. ISBN .

Poems

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