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Doreen Baingana (born 1966) is a Ugandan writer. Her short story collection, Tropical Fish, won the Grace Paley Award for Short Fiction in 2003 and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book, Africa Region in 2006. Stories in it were finalists for the Caine Prize in 2004 and 2005.
Doreen Baingana is a Ugandan short story writer. Her book, Tropical Fish won the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Africa, and an AWP Short Fiction Award. She has graduated from Makerere University with a JD, and from the University of Maryland with an MFA.
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Jul 5, 2012 · Doreen Baingana: The role of offensive language in novels. Doreen Baingana, award-winning short story writer, repurposes the past to inspire new personal and national identities, and to define...
Tropical Fish is a short story collection, published in 2005, by Ugandan author Doreen Baingana. [1] [2] It revolves around the lives of a family based in Entebbe, Uganda.
Author of monthly column for African Woman, a Ugandan magazine. SIDELIGHTS: Ugandan author Doreen Baingana originally studied international law at Makerere University, in Kampala, Uganda, and expected to embark on a career as a lawyer.
Set mostly in pastoral Entebbe with stops in the cities Kampala and Los Angeles, Tropical Fish depicts the reality of life for Christine Mugisha and her family after Idi Amin’s dictatorship.
Feb 11, 2024 · D oreen Baingana is a Ugandan writer known for her debut novel, ‘Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe’. The book is a collection of interconnected short stories that explore the lives of three sisters in Uganda growing into women during turbulent times.
