The+Pig+-++Ben+Lybrook


 * __ The Pig __

Summary of the Book: ** During the story "__The Pig__" written by Barbara Kimenye the main character was introduced as Old Kibuka. Kibuka recieved a gift from his grandson. The gift was a pig, which was originally meant to have been eaten but Kibuka well much in love with the pig and kept it as a pig. The pig was born not being able to feed from its mother, this is why Kibuka got the opportunity to have the pig. Kibuka and the pig had many good times together and some that weren't so great.

** Barabara Kimenye was the first Anglophone Ugandan women writer to have a book published in Central and East Africa. She was born in England, in 1929, but by her own admission considers herself Ugandan by birth. Kimenye studied nursing at Hammersmith, London, where she met and married her Tanzanian husband prior to moving to Uganda in the early 1950s. Here she adopted the role of housewife and mother to her two sons before becoming private secretary for the Government of the Kabaka of Buganda. Although Kimenye put together her first newspaper at the age of eleven and feels that writing is something she has done throughout her life, she admits to drifting into her career as a journalist because of a chance meeting in a Ugandan nightclub with Kenyan trade unionist, politician and statesman, Tom Mboya. Her first journalistic role was that of columnist for the //Uganda Nation// newspaper; later she became widely known as a journalist and women’s feature editor for the //Daily Nation// of Kenya. Kimenye was the first black woman journalist in East Africa. Now she is known to write many books and short stories.
 * Barbara Kimenye:

(Village similar to Kibuka's)

**My Opnion:** I would recommend reading this book for anyone. It teaches how if something isn't made or born for a reason can actually be usefull to someone or something else.