![]() ![]() “It’s not hyperbole to call Kintu the great Ugandan novel,” Aaron Bady writes in his introduction. Weaving together the stories of Kintu’s descendants, Makumbi has written a sweeping saga that’s bound to be a modern classic. Along the way, he unleashes a curse that will follow his family for generations. ![]() Makumbi won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize the same year.ĭivided into six sections, Kintu begins with a murder in present-day Kampala before returning to 1750, when Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda Kingdom. In 2014, it was longlisted for the Etisalat Prize for African Fiction. In East Africa, copies of Kintu sold out immediately. When Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, then a little-known Ugandan writer living in England, won the 2013 Kwani? Manuscript Project for her debut novel, Kintu, she could not have anticipated the literary sensation it would become. ![]()
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