Kimenye Barbara
 
Birthdate: 1941
 
 Place of birth: A long time resident of Nairobi, Kimenye was born in Kampala, Central Uganda
 
 Languages spoken:  Luganda, English, Kiswahili

Writing Language:  English
 
Education:  A novelist, journalist, short story and children's writer. Kimenye was educated in Kampala and London.
 
 
Employment:  Worked as a columnist for The Nation paper Nairobi
 
 Bibliography:  Moses (Young people's series). Nairobi Oxford University press (OUP).The Gemstone Affair (short action novel). Nairobi: OUP, 1979. Kalasanda Revisited. Nairobi: EAEP, 1998. One of her stories, Battle of the sacred Tree has been made into a feature film.