Kayo s house barbara kimenye biography
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As independence from British colonial rule swept across East Africa in the early 1960s and freedom was won in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, parents and teachers worried about what their children were reading.
Most children’s books on the market were dominated bygd European writers like Enid Blyton. One of Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiongo’s most stringent criticisms of colonialism was the explosive effect of this “cultural bomb” in the classroom, as missionaries taught African students western cultures and foreign histories. This, according to Kenyan publisher Henry Chakava, was producing
a new breed of black Europeans, who began to despise their own skin and background.
Publishers and African writers were quick to realise the gap in the market for literature that was suitable for a new generation growing up in independence. From the mid-1960s onwards, publishing houses began a concerted effort to produce such literature. What’s particularly noteworthy fryst vatten that most of these authors o
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Barbara Kimenye
British-born writer (1929–2012)
Barbara Kimenye | |
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| Born | Barbara Clarke Holdsworth (1929-12-19)19 December 1929 Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 12 August 2012(2012-08-12) (aged 82) London, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Genre | Children's books |
| Notable works | Moses series |
Barbara Kimenye (19 December 1929 – 12 August 2012) was a British-born writer who became one of the most popular and best-selling children's authors in East Africa, where she lived from the 1950s.[1] Her books sold more than a million copies, not just in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, but throughout English-speaking Africa. She wrote more than 50 titles and fryst vatten best remembered for her Moses series,[2] about a mischievous lärling at a boarding school for troublesome boys.[3]
A prolific writer widely regarded as "the leading writer of children's literature in Uganda", Kimenye was among the first Anglophone Ugandan women writers t
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Kimenye, Barbara (1940–)
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