Austin Bukenya (1944-02-10) 10 February 1944 (age 80) Masaka, Uganda
Occupation
Poet, playwright, novelist and academic administrator
Nationality
Ugandan
Alma mater
Makerere University
Namilyango College
Genre
Novels, plays, poetry
Notable works
The People's Bachelor (1972); The Bride (1987)
Austin Bukenya (born 10 February 1944) is a Ugandan poet, playwright, novelist and academic administrator.[1] He is the author 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 and Kenya since the late 1960s. He has also held residences at universities in Rwanda and Germany. Bukenya is also a literary critic, novelist, poet and dramatist. An accomplished stage and screen actor, he was for several years Director of the Creative and Performing Arts Centre at Kenyatta University, Nairobi.[4]
^Prof. challenges gov’t on role of humanities newvision.co.ug. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
^"The People’s Bachelor – the greatest Ugandan novel" Archived 8 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine, edirisa.org. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
^The Bride… a review Words on Austin Lwanga Bukenya’s The Bride, joankivanda.wordpress.com. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
^Austin Bukenya Archived 20 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine, badilishapoetry.com. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
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(1993), Vato Na Valu (1993), Sach Na Sipahi (1993). He has translated AustinBukenya's play, The Bride as Navavadhu (2000) in Gujarati. He has written two...
Letters". University of Kent. July 2010. Retrieved 27 March 2017. Bukenya, Austin (4 November 2016). "Miss Molly Maureen Mahood and the others who taught...
Movements. Oxford University Press. pp. 159–187. ISBN 978-0-19-994349-4. Bukenya, Austin (8 May 2021). "Dr Achola Pala: Empowered and Empowering Mentor for...
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