Jane Bakaluba

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. 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. "Cultures-Uganda | Bakaluba Jane Kironde". uganda.spla.pro. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
4. 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.