Gabriel Ruhumbika

Gabriel Ruhumbika was born in 1938 on Ukerewe Island, in Lake Victoria. A graduate of Makerere, in Uganda, then attached to the University of London, and later a doctor of the Sorbonne, he taught at the University of Dar es Salaam from 1970 to 1985, then at Hampton University and, from 1992, at the University of Georgia, where he was professor of comparative literature until his retirement in 2016. After a first book in English, he wrote all his novels in Swahili, a choice that brings him close to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, and also produced short stories and translations.

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• NovelVillage in UhuruGabriel Ruhumbika · 1969Literature