Barbara Kimenye

Barbara Kimenye was born on 19 December 1929 in Halifax, England, to a West Indian father who was a doctor. A nurse trained in London, she married Bill Kimenye, son of a chief from Bukoba, and settled in Kampala, where she was private secretary to the kabaka Mutesa II, then a journalist on the Uganda Nation and, from 1965, in Nairobi. The author of more than fifty books, among them the Moses series for young readers, she lived in Britain from 1975 and died in London on 12 August 2012.

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• Short storiesKalasandaBarbara Kimenye · 1965Literature