# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jackee-budesta-batanda
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:33:36.015Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jackee-budesta-batanda"
name: "Jackee Budesta Batanda"
slug: "jackee-budesta-batanda"
description: "Jackee Budesta Batanda is a Ugandan journalist, writer and entrepreneur. She is a senior managing partner with Success Spark Brand Limited, a communications and educational company, and a co-founder of Mastermind Africa Group Limited, a business-networking group. In 2006, Batanda worked as a peace writer at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego. She was later awarded a research fellowship at the highly competitive Justice in Africa fellowship Programme with the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2008. In 2010, Batanda was International Writer-in-Residence at the Housing Authors and Literature Denmark, where she commenced work on her novel, A Lesson in Forgetting. In 2012, she was also featured in The Times alongside 19 young women shaping the future of Africa. That same year she was also a finalist in the 2012 Trust Women journalism Awards. She has been writer-in-residence at Lancaster University in the UK. She was selected by the International Women's Media Foundation as the 2011–12 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow. During the fellowship, she studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies and other Boston-area universities, and worked at The New York Times and The Boston Globe."
tagline: "Ugandan writer"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.037735849056604
  historical:           6.136393333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://jackeebatanda.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Jackee Budesta Batanda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چاكى بوديستا باتاندا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jackee Budesta Batanda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackee_Budesta_Batanda"
    title: "Jackee Budesta Batanda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackee_Budesta_Batanda"
    title: "Jackee Budesta Batanda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackee_Budesta_Batanda"
    title: "Jackee Budesta Batanda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جیکی بودیسٹا بٹانڈا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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