Kintu

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

earliest edition we have, 2014 Transit Books, 2017 443 pages

Kwani? series — book 9

'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 new leader of the Buganda Kingdom. Along the way, he unleashes a curse that will plague his...

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Editions we hold

Kintu edition · 2018 · Oneworld Publications · 432 pages · 9781786073785
Kintu edition · 2018 · Oneworld Publications · 9781786073778
Kintu paperback · 2018 · HarperCollins · 9781786074430
Kintu edition · 2017 · Transit Books · 443 pages · 9781945492013
Kintu edition · 2017 · Transit Books · 9781945492037
Kintu edition · 2014 · Kwani Trust · 468 pages · 9789966159892

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