# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gabriel-ruhumbika
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:24:15.042Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gabriel-ruhumbika"
name: "Gabriel Ruhumbika"
slug: "gabriel-ruhumbika"
description: "Gabriel Ruhumbika is a Tanzanian born novelist, short story writer, translator and academic. His first novel, Village in Uhuru, was published in 1969. He has written several subsequent novels in Swahili. He has also taught literature at a number of universities, and, until his retirement in 2016, he was a professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia in the USA."
tagline: "Writer, translator and academic from Tanzania"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.35
  momentum:             1.25
  historical:           8.536573333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Gabriel Ruhumbika"
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    title: "Gabriel Ruhumbika"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Ruhumbika"
    title: "Gabriel Ruhumbika"
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    title: "Gabriel Ruhumbika"
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    title: "Gabriel Ruhumbika"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Ruhumbika"
    title: "Gabriel Ruhumbika"
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    title: "Gabriel Ruhumbika"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Ruhumbika"
    title: "Gabriel Ruhumbika"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5515838"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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