Jane Bakaluba (born 1939 in Kampala, also known as Jane Jägers[1] or Jaggers[2] Bakaluba and Jane Kironde Bakaluba) is a Ugandan novelist now living in Canada.[3] Her best known work is Honeymoon for Three published in 1975 by the East African Publishing House in their series African Secondary Readers,[4][1] in which she contrasts traditional and westernised women.[5] She is a member of the Baganda people, and speaks Luganda and English. She worked in publishing in Kampala, and later emigrated to Canada.[3]

In Women's Literature in Kenya and Uganda: The Trouble with Modernity in 2011, Kruger wrote that: "By the early 1990s only four Ugandan women writers (Rose Mboya [perhaps a misspelling of Rose Mbowa], Elvania Zirimu, Jane Bakaluba and Barbara Kimenye) had gained national prominence ...".[6] She was one of fourteen women included in Oladele Taiwo's 1985 Female Novelists of Modern Africa, in a group of six who were "known mainly for a single novel each".[7]

Selected publications

  • Honeymoon for Three (1975, East African Publishing House)[1][4]
  • Nampewo agenda mu ssomero (2013, Kampala: Fountain Publishers, ISBN 9789970252350, in Luganda)[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Catalog record for "Honeymoon for Three". Worldcat. 1975. OCLC 923147724.
  2. ↑ Abasi, Kiyimba (2008). "Male Identity and Female Space in the Fiction of Ugandan Women Writers". Journal of International Women's Studies. 9 (3): 193–222. A few women writers, such as Barbara Kimenye, Elvania Zirimu, Jane Jaggers Bakaluba and Grace Akelo, have been quite outstanding, but they have always been clearly outnumbered.
  3. 1 2 "Cultures-Uganda | Bakaluba Jane Kironde". uganda.spla.pro. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  4. 1 2 Honeymoon for Three on GoogleBooks
  5. ↑ Owomoyela, Oyekan (1993). A History of Twentieth-century African Literatures. U of Nebraska Press. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-8032-8604-7. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  6. ↑ Kruger, M. (2011). "Introduction". Women's Literature in Kenya and Uganda: The Trouble with Modernity. Springer. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-230-11641-2. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  7. ↑ Bruner, Charlotte H. "Female Novelists of Modern Africa by Oladele Taiwo (review)". World Literature Today. 60 (3): 508. JSTOR 40142394.
  8. ↑ Catalogue record for "Nampewo agenda mu ssomero". Worldcat. OCLC 860897184.


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