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The First Woman: Winner of the Jhalak Prize, 2021

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By (author): Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

 

'Jennifer Makumbi is a genius storyteller.' Reni Eddo-Lodge

An intoxicating mix of Ugandan folklore and modern feminism, from a multi-award-winning author

As Kirabo enters her teens, questions begin to gnaw at her questions which the adults in her life will do anything to ignore. Where is the mother she has never known? And why would she choose to leave her daughter behind? Inquisitive, headstrong, and unwilling to take no for an answer, Kirabo sets out to find the truth for herself. 

Her search will take her away from the safety of her prosperous Ugandan family, plunging her into a very different world of magic, tradition, and the haunting legend of 'The First Woman'.

'In Jennifer Makumbi, we have a giant of literature living among us.' Peter Kalu, Jhalak Prize Judge

A SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY MAIL, BBC CULTURE & IRISH INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR

 

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  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Jul 2021
  • Publisher: Oneworld Publications
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781786078582

About Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is a Ugandan novelist and short story writer. She has a PhD from Lancaster University. Her first novel Kintu (Oneworld 2018) won the Kwani? Manuscript Project in 2013 and was longlisted for the Etisalat Prize in 2014. She was awarded the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for 'Let's Tell This Story Properly' which featured in her first collection Manchester Happened (Oneworld 2019). She was awarded the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction 2018 and lives in Manchester where she lectures in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. In 2020 she was selected as one of 100 Most Influential Africans of 2020 by New African magazine.

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