Jackee Budesta Batanda

 

Jackee Budesta Batanda Munnayuganda munnamawulire, muwandiisi era munnabizinensi. Ye maneja omukulu owa Kampuni y'ebyempuliziganya n'ebyenjigiriza eya Success Spark Brand Limited, era omu ku batandiisi b'ekibiina kya Mastermind Africa Group Limited, a business-networking group. Mu 2006, Batanda yakola ng'omuwandiisi awandiika ku ddembe ku Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice ku University of San Diego. Yasiimibwa olw'okunonyereza kweyakola okuva mu ba Africa fellowship Programme n'ettendekero lya Institute for Justice and Reconciliation mu Cape Town, South Africa, mu 2008. Mu 2010, Batanda yali omu ku bawandiisi ba International Writer-in-Residence at the Housing Authors and Literature Denmark, gye yamaliririza katabo ke aka, A Lesson in Forgetting. Mu 2012, yali omu kubalabikira mu The Times wamu n'abakyala abalala 19 mu kuwunda ebiseera eby'omumaaso ebya Africa. Omwaka ogwo gwennyini, yawangula Awaadi ya 2012 Trust Women journalism Award. Abadde muwandiisi mu Lancaster University mu Bungereza. Yalondebwa ekitongole kya International Women's Media Foundation nga 2011–12 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow. Mu biseera ebyo yali asomera ku Massachusetts Institute of Technology mu misomo gye egy'ebulaaya ne Yunivasite endala mu bitundu bya Boston era y'akolera ne ku The New York Times ne The Boston Globe.

Ye yafuna Awaadi ya 2010 Uganda Young Achievers Awards mu ttuluba ly'abakugu era omulamuzi mu Africa program fellowship. Aweereza nga munnamawulire ow'akaseera n'e Global Press Institute, abakolera ku mutimbagano era yali akwasaganya eby'empuliziganya mu pulojekiti y'amateeka ku banoonyi b'obubudamo ku ssomero lya Mateeka ku Makerere Yunivasite, Kampala, Uganda. Y'omu ku bawandiisi 39 abalangirirwa okuva mu Africa okubeera ekitundu ku pulojekiti ya Africa39 eyali egenderera okwanja abasiyazi, Hay Festival ne Bloomsbury Publishing ku London Book Fair mu Gwokuna 2014. Olukalala luliko abawandiisi abamaanyi okuva mu Africa abali wansi w'emyaka 40.

Obuto bwe n'emisomo gye

Batanda Musamya ava mu Buvanjuba bwa Uganda. Yasomera ku Mary Hill High School mu Mbarara, Bweranyangi Girls' Secondary School mu Bushenyi ne St. Paul's College mu Mbale. Alina Diguli ey'okubiri eya master's degree in forced migration studies okuva mu University of the Witwatersrand mu South Africa ne Diguli mu ssomo eddala ery'ebyempulizigazanya okuva ku Makerere Yunivasite mu Uganda.

Bye yawandiika

Batanda abadde awandiika n'obukugu okumala emyaka kkumi nga munnamawulire omupangise saako ne mu luapula lw'eggwanga–The Sunday Vision and Sunday Monitor. Mu Awaadi z'eyafuna olw'okuwandiika ku bintu ebilowoozebwa obulowoozebwa mulimu n'eya Commonwealth Short Story Competition, 2003, era n'okuvuganya mu mpaka za Macmillan Writers Prize for Africa, 2003. Emirimu gye gilagiddwa ku BBC World Service, BBC 3 ne emikutu gya kediyo emirala. Batanda awandiise emboozi ennyimpi eziwerako era nga zifulumiziddwa mu bitabo eby'abawandiisi ab'amaanyi omuli "The Thing That Ate Your Brain", "Holding onto the Memories" ne "Dora's Turn", n'endala nyingi. Awandiise ku nkyukakyuka ku mukutu gwa Foreign Policy magazine website, the New York Times, Boston Globe, Latitude News, the Global Post, The Star, the Mail&Guardian, the Sunday Vision ne Sunday Monitor.

Batanda memba mu kibiina ky'abakyala abawandiisi mu Uganda eka FEMRITE, era abadde muwandiisi wa Lancaster University, gyeyakolera ku kitabo kya The Big Picture, ekitabo eky'awandiikibwa abawandiisi basatu okuva mu Bulaaya, abadde omu ku b'akakiiko ka British Council's Crossing Borders programme.

Yali muwanguzi w'empaka z'abawaniisi b'mboozi nnyimpi za 2003 Commonwealth Short Story Competition era yalondebwa mu mpaka za Caine Prize for African Writing ez'ategekebwa aba Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa. Afulumiza obutabo bw'abaana, The Blue Marble, nga yali akolagana n'aba UNESCO-Paris n'aba Sub-Saharan Publishers (Ghana). Emboozi ze zafulumizibwa mu bitabo eby'enjawulo n'ebitabo ebiwandiikibwamu emboozi z'abawandiisi ab'enjawulo nga Farafina, Edinburgh Review, Moving Worlds, Gifts of Harvest, The Spirit of the Commonwealth, Wasafiri, Jazz, Miracles and Dreams, n'ebifo ebirala era omu ku bawandiisi abawandiika mu kitabo kya Margaret Busby ekya 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa. Amaliriza pulojekiti ze bbiri, Everyday People,ekitabo akirimu emboozi n'ennyimpi ne Our Time of Sorrow, akatabo.

Obutabo bw'eyafulumya

Non fiction

• "Seeking Freedom Among the Ruins: akatabo ak'ogera ku bulamu n'emirimu gya Shukrije Gashi", Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, Ogwokusatu 2007.
• "For Our Children", in  (2003). Tears of Hope, a Collection of Short Stories by Ugandan Rural Women. Femrite Publications. ISBN <bdi>978-9970700028</bdi>.

Emboozi ennyimpi

• "The Thing That Ate Your breakfast", in  (2012). Behind The Shadows. Contemporary Stories from Africa and Asia.
• "My Mother Dances in the Dark", in  (2010). Speaking for the Generations: An Anthology of Contemporary African Short Stories. Africa World Press. ISBN <bdi>978-1592217199</bdi>.
• "1 4 the Road…till 4am", in  (2010). Butterfly Dreams and Other Stories from Uganda. Typhon media. ISBN 9789881516589.
• "Remember Atita", in  (2008). Dancing with Strangers: Stories from Africa. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780194791977.
• "A Pocket Full of Dreams", in  (2008). Dreams, Miracles and Jazz. Picador Africa. ISBN 9781770100251.
• "Dora's Turn", in  (2008). Cries from the Heart: Stories from Around the World. Oxford University Press. ISBN <bdi>978-0194790840</bdi>.
• "Dance with Me", in  (2006). Gifts of Harvest. Femrite Publications. ISBN <bdi>978-9970700042</bdi>.
• "Stella", in  (2005). The Big Picture. Lancaster Litfest Publications. ISBN <bdi>978-0954088095</bdi>.
• "Life Sucks…Sometimes", in  Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd. 2005. ISBN <bdi>978-1770091450</bdi>.
• "Dance with me", in  (2005). Michael's Eyes: The War Against the Ugandan Child. Umea, Sweden: Institutionen for moderna sprak Umea universitet. ISBN 9173059897.
• "A Job for Mundu", in  (2001). Words from a Granary. Femrite Publications. ISBN 9789970700011.
• "Waiting on the frangipani tree", in Per Contra, 2012
• "Doing nothing"
• "Remember Atita "
• "The Rule of the Game", in Forma Fluens, October 2010
• "Holding on to the Memories", in Feminist and Online Scholar Journal, 2009
• "Aciro's Song", in Wasafiri, June 2007, and Edinburgh Review, August 2006
• "The Rule of the Game" in Crossing Borders Magazine, October 2006
• "I Took her a Hibiscus", in The Sunday Monitor, December 2005
• "City Link", in Moving Worlds journal, December 2005
• "Dora's Turn", Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) CD, October 2004
• "Bahati from Bunia", in World View, June–August, 2004
• "It was Eden", in Masscom Online, 2002
• "Four Sweets Please", in Dhana, March 2002
• "Tears of Sky", in New Era Magazine, 2002
• "Radio Africa", in Win Magazine, September 2001

Awaadi n'empaka z'eyetabamu

• Listed among 39 top writers from Africa – Africa39, April 2014
• April winner of the Real Wealth & Success for Real People Scholarship, Loral Langemeier Millionaire Maker, April 2014
• 2012 finalist, Trust Women Journalist Award, October 2012, Thomson Reuters Foundation and International Herald Tribune
• London Times "20 women shaping the future of Africa", 19 March 2012
• 2011–2012 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow, September 2011 – March 2012, Boston and New York City
• Young Achievers Award 2010 – Corporate and Professionals, 3 December 2010
• Global Press Institute Online Photo Essay Training Award, October 2010 – March 2011
• International Writer-in-Residence, Housing Authors and Literature Denmark (H.A.L.D), Viborg, Denmark, July–August 2010
• Fellow in Transitional Justice in Africa Programme, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, Cape Town, South Africa, October–November 2008
• Scholarship to attend "Crafting Human Security in an Insecure World Conference", Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego, USA, September 2008
• Post-graduate Merit Award, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2006.
• Forced Migration Studies Departmental Grant, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2006
• Appointed writer-in-residence, Lancaster University and Litfest, Lancaster, UK, January–March 2005
• Highly commended for the Commonwealth Short Story Competition, 2004
• Highly commended for the Caine Prize for African Writing, 2004
• Shortlisted for Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa, 2004
• Africa Regional Winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Competition, 2003
• Thrice selected as fellow on the Crossing Borders an African Writers' Mentoring Scheme run by British Council 2002/2003, 2003/2004, 2004

Ebijuliziddwamu eby'ebweru wa Wikipediya

• Author's website
• Beatrice Lamwaka, "Batanda is opening doors to the world with her pen", Daily Monitor, 2 May 2014.
• "Ugandans flying Africa’s literary flag", Daily Monitor, 25 April 2014