Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

A Girl Is a Body of Water

Ugandan girl discovers her complex relationship to womanhood and survival

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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Ugandan novelist whose Kintu is an epic multigenerational novel of Ugandan history and its recurring traumas. Her second novel A Girl Is a Body of Water continues her exploration of Ugandan identity. She is one of the most important contemporary East African literary voices.

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