years in Kampala before deciding to relocate to Kenya, where she spent the next 10 years in semi-retirement. In 1998 Kimenye finally settled back in London, where she lived happily and was much involved in community affairs in Camden. Her son Christopher died in 2005. Kimenye died in London in 2012, aged 82, survived by her son David and a granddaughter, Celeste. Writing Kimenye always had a gift with words (she wrote her own newspaper as a child of 11) and became a journalist on the Uganda Nation newspaper. She developed a talent for storytelling, writing down the tales she told to children. Moving to Nairobi, Kenya, in 1965 to work on the Daily Nation, and later the East African Standard, Kimenye was wooed by publishers who, post-independence, sought talented authors who wrote for and about African children. However, her first book, Kalasanda, for Oxford University Press (OUP), was a tale of Ugandan village life, and was followed by Kalasanda Revisited. It was after this that she turned her hand to writing for children and schools. Her first two stories, Kalasanda and Kalasanda Revisited, were successful. However, her salient legacy sits magnificently in the Moses series about a mischievous student at a boarding school for troublesome boys. Shortly before her death, she received news that the Moses series was about to be relaunched by OUP and also to be translated into Kiswahili. Published works Non fiction Children's books Moses Series References External links "Short Story Review: The Winner by Barbara Kimenye", The Woyingi Blog "A critical analysis of the use of the five literary elements (theme, plot, characterization, setting, structure) in Barbara Kimenye's The Winner" "Beyond Good and Evil" 1929 births 2012 deaths Ugandan women writers Ugandan children's writers British emigrants to Uganda People from Halifax, West Yorkshire Ugandan women short story writers Ugandan short story writers Ugandan women children's writers 20th-century Ugandan women writers 20th-century Ugandan writers 20th-century short story writers