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John B Nsenga (RIP)

  • John B Nsenga  (RIP)
Writer, Teacher
Principal country concerned : Column : Poetry / story telling

Nsenga John B

 Birthdate: 1948

Place of birth: Kigezi Southwestern Uganda

 Languages spoken: Rukiga, English

Writing language: English

Education: Had missionary education before taking up a professional teaching course from 1970-73.

Employment: Taught and headed English in several government-run schools. Was widely known for three weekly programmes: My VIew Writers' Club and Poetry Reading on Radio Uganda.

Bibliography: In a Bachelor's House (play); Kampala: ULB, 1981
Comment: This was his fifth play and the first to be published. In it he "exploits and criticizes some qualities in administration". A poem, The Pearl of Africa, won first prize In the National Variety Shows organised by the Ministry of Information in 1980.

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