# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-kimenye
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:36:38.607Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-kimenye"
name: "Barbara Kimenye"
slug: "barbara-kimenye"
description: "Barbara Kimenye 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. Her books sold more than a million copies, not just in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, but throughout English-speaking Africa. She wrote more than 50 titles and is best remembered for her Moses series, about a mischievous student at a boarding school for troublesome boys."
tagline: "Ugandan writer (1929–2012)"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-12-19"
deathDate: "2012-08-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.672606666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kimenye"
    title: "Barbara Kimenye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kimenye"
    title: "Barbara Kimenye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CF%80%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B1_%CE%9A%CE%B9%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%B5"
    title: "Μπάρμπαρα Κιμένιε"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kimenye"
    title: "Barbara Kimenye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kimenye"
    title: "Barbara Kimenye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kimenye"
    title: "Barbara Kimenye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kimenye"
    title: "Barbara Kimenye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%9A%D1%96%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C%D1%94"
    title: "Барбара Кіменьє"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7_%DA%A9%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%92"
    title: "باربرا کمینے"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16855989"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump