Author: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
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Manchester Happened
If there’s one thing the characters in Jennifer Makumbi’s stories know, it’s how to field an uncomfortable question. ‘Let me buy you a cup of tea…what are you doing in England?’ ‘Do these children of yours speak any Luganda?’ ‘Did you know that man Idi Amin?’ But perhaps the most difficult question of all is…
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Manchester Happened
If there’s one thing the characters in Jennifer Makumbi’s stories know, it’s how to field an uncomfortable question. ‘Let me buy you a cup of tea…what are you doing in England?’ ‘Do these children of yours speak any Luganda?’ ‘Did you know that man Idi Amin?’ But perhaps the most difficult question of all is…
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The First Woman
For one young girl, discovering what it means to become a woman in a family, a community and a country determined to silence her will take all the courage she has. Growing up in a small Ugandan village, Kirabo is surrounded by powerful women. Her grandmother, her aunts, her friends and cousins are all desperate…
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Kintu
First published in Kenya in 2014 to critical and popular acclaim, Kintu is a modern classic, a multilayered narrative that reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan. Divided into six sections, the novel begins in 1750, when Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the…