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Fairleigh Dickinson University

Transit Books

A Review of Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

August 14, 2017

Amanda Sarasien

(Oakland, CA: Transit Books, 2017) It may be that Kintu, the debut novel from Ugandan novelist Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, will stand as Uganda’s national narrative, in much the same way Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart has for Nigeria. Literary history … Continued

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