Barbara Kimenye (19 December 1929 – 12 August 2012) was a British-born writer who became one of the most popular and best-selling children's authors in East Africa, where she lived from the 1950s.
She wrote more than 50 titles and is best remembered for her Moses series,[2] about a mischievous student at a boarding school for troublesome boys.
There, she met many students from East Africa, and married Bill Kimenye, son of a chief from Bukoba in what was then Tanganyika.
She also became close to East Africa's emerging cultural scene, befriending writers and artists including Rajat Neogy and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
She assiduously followed political developments in a disrupted Uganda and played an active role supporting exile groups opposed to the rule of Idi Amin, and later the second Milton Obote regime.
In 1998, Kimenye finally settled back in London, where she lived happily and was much involved in community affairs in Camden.
However, her salient legacy sits magnificently in the Moses series about a mischievous student at a boarding school for troublesome boys.