Austin Bukenya

Austin Bukenya
BornAustin Bukenya
(1944-02-10) 10 February 1944 (age 80)
Masaka, Uganda
OccupationPoet, playwright, novelist and academic administrator
NationalityUgandan
Alma materMakerere University Namilyango College
GenreNovels, plays, poetry
Notable worksThe 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]

  1. ^ Prof. challenges gov’t on role of humanities newvision.co.ug. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
  2. ^ "The People’s Bachelor – the greatest Ugandan novel" Archived 8 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine, edirisa.org. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  3. ^ The Bride… a review Words on Austin Lwanga Bukenya’s The Bride, joankivanda.wordpress.com. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
  4. ^ Austin Bukenya Archived 20 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine, badilishapoetry.com. Retrieved 7 May 2014.