John Ruganda (30 May 1941 to 8 December 2007[citation needed]) was Uganda's best known playwright. Beyond his work as a playwright, Ruganda was also a professor at University of North, South Africa, University of Nairobi, and Makerere University.[1]
He was born in Fort Portal and died in Uganda's capital Kampala.
Ruganda's plays "reflect the reality of the East African sociopolitical situation after independence."[2] He was considered a shaping force of East African theater.[3]The Burdens (1972) and The Floods (1980) have become a regular part of curriculum in literature classes.[4]
^African Books Collective. "John Ruganda". Retrieved 3 May 2011.
^Imbuga, Francis. "John Ruganda". Gale Database: Dictionary of Literary Biography. Retrieved 3 May 2011.
^Ssenkaaba, Stephen (18 December 2007). "Ruganda: The passing of a literary giant". New Vision Online. Archived from the original on 22 September 2012. Retrieved 3 May 2011.
^East African Educational Publishers Ltd. "John Ruganda Passes On". Archived from the original on 29 November 2010. Retrieved 3 May 2011.
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