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Kyomuhendo, Goretti, 1965-

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LC classificationPR9402.9.K96
Personal name headingKyomuhendo, Goretti, 1965-
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Associated countryUganda
Associated placeLondon (England)
Birth date1965
Place of birthUganda
Field of activityFeminism
AffiliationMakerere University. Business School University of KwaZulu-Natal FEMRITE (Association) University of Iowa
Profession or occupationNovelists Essayists Political activists
Found inThe first daughter, 1996: t.p. (Goretti Kyomuhendo) p. 4 of cover (b. 1965; Hoima, west. Uganda; freelance writer)
Dictionary of African Biography, accessed February 18, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Kyomuhendo, Goretti; fiction writer, essayist, political activist, feminist; born 1965 in Uganda; studied marketing, Nakawa Business College (now Makerere University Business School); received a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Kwazulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa; was founding member and program coordinator of FEMRITE; received Best Novel of the Year award from National Book Trust of Uganda for the novel Secrets No More (1999); was the first Ugandan woman invited to the International Writing Program, University of Iowa, Iowa, US; moved to London, England)