Austin Bukenya | |
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Born | Austin Bukenya 10 February 1944 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]